Cornwall and Devon roads: 14,942 driver courses in a single month

Think nobody notices how you drive? October’s figures suggest plenty of people do, from officers at the roadside to volunteers with speed guns and other drivers with dashcams running.

Devon & Cornwall Police has published its latest monthly summary from the Road Safety Team, setting out the work done during October to keep communities safe on and by the roads across Devon and Cornwall. The team says it wants to encourage people to slow down and make safer choices, and the infographic is its way of showing how hard officers are working towards that.

📷Devon & Cornwall Police Road Safety Team October summary. Credit: Devon & Cornwall Police

Nearly 15,000 courses in a month

The biggest number on the summary is 14,942 NDORS educational courses delivered in October. That is up from 13,179 in September.

What is NDORS?

NDORS is the National Driver Offender Retraining Scheme. It covers the courses some drivers are offered after committing an offence, as an alternative to prosecution. The National Speed Awareness Course is the best known, but there are others for different types of offence. Drivers pay for the course themselves.

277 vehicles taken off the road

Officers seized 277 uninsured or unlicensed vehicles during the month, slightly fewer than the 296 recorded in September.

Seatbelts, phones and tickets

The infographic records 373 seatbelt offences and 143 mobile phone offences in October.

There were also 437 officer-issued tickets received.

Speed checks and dashcam footage

The team logged 602 speed detection hours, alongside 228 Community Speed Watch (CSW) sessions run by volunteers.

And 637 submissions came in through Op Snap.

What is Op Snap?

Op Snap is the force’s online portal for the public to send in footage of driving offences. It takes clips from dashcams, helmet cameras, phones and video doorbells. Each submission is reviewed by the Road Safety Team to check the footage is clear enough and shows an offence. Footage usually needs to be sent within 10 days of the incident, and the portal is not the route for reporting a collision.

DVLA referrals and BikeSafe

The figures show 124 medical referrals made to the DVLA in October.

Ten people were also trained on BikeSafe courses during the month. The summary carries the Vision Zero South West and Speed Watch logos.

“We want to encourage people to slow down and make safer choices on our roads,” the team said.