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Speed Awareness

This scheme will allow the police service to divert low-end speeding motorists to education as opposed to the Fixed Penalty System.

There are a number of constabularies who have adopted the National Speed Awareness Scheme, created to educate drivers and riders about the dangers of driving at both excessive and inappropriate speeds.

Any driver who is detected driving at the speed identified as suitable in a force area and who has not previously attended a course within a 3 year period, will be offered a course in the area where the offence is committed or in an area where the national scheme has also been adopted.

The National Speed Awareness Scheme has been put in place to give offenders who drive in excess of the speed limit the opportunity to attend a driver re-education course on the effects and dangers of speeding. The course gives a driver an option of attending a Speed Awareness Scheme course as an alternative to the Fixed Penalty System of a fine and penalty points endorsed on their licence.