Speed Awareness Course - record of check now kept for 3.5yrs

[jwo]

Morning,

Have my 120,000mile speed awareness course visit. My understanding was that you were eligible (providing within relevant speed threshold) for a SAC every 3yrs from date of offence. In my latest offer it states:

'A record of this check will be retained for 3.5yrs. It will be used to decide if you will be offered a course should a similar offence occur in the future.'

Does the 3yr window still apply or have they cunningly increased the time period to 3.5yrs..

Cheers

[PArbor1]

I did a course last month and was told it would last three years the same as points would, they didn’t say anything about 3.5 years.

[Pica-Pica]

All your answers should be available here. If not, ask there, not on PH.
https://www.ndors.org.uk/

[jwo]

This may just be a West Yorkshire force thing possibly? Obviously a moral to the story - don't speed...

[Dr Jekyll]

jwo said:

Morning,

Have my 120,000mile speed awareness course visit. My understanding was that you were eligible (providing within relevant speed threshold) for a SAC every 3yrs from date of offence. In my latest offer it states:

'A record of this check will be retained for 3.5yrs. It will be used to decide if you will be offered a course should a similar offence occur in the future.'

Does the 3yr window still apply or have they cunningly increased the time period to 3.5yrs..

Cheers

Presumably it's so they can check whether you were within the three year limit at the date of the offence even if the decision isn't made for a few months.

[mygoldfishbowl]

As far as I know its 3 years from when you were offered a course, not from when you do the course. That would be why they keep records for 3.5 years.

[sim16v]

jwo said:

This may just be a West Yorkshire force thing possibly? Obviously a moral to the story - don't speed...

Nope, moral to the story is pick your times and places.

Don't get caught

[Aretnap]

mygoldfishbowl said:

As far as I know its 3 years from when you were offered a course, not from when you do the course. That would be why they keep records for 3.5 years.

Close - it's three years between the dates of the offences for which the courses are offered which is the important thing, not the dates you actually do the courses or the dates the offers are made.

Hence they need to keep records for a bit longer than three years, as they might need making the decision on whether to offer you a course several weeks or even months after you were actually caught speeding, so need to know about any course linked to an offence three years
before that.

[jwo]

sim16v said:

jwo said:

This may just be a West Yorkshire force thing possibly? Obviously a moral to the story - don't speed...

Nope, moral to the story is pick your times and places.

Don't get caught

Hopefully that goes without saying....😂

[jwo]

Pica-Pica said:

All your answers should be available here. If not, ask there, not on PH.
https://www.ndors.org.uk/

And the answer isn’t available there as I’d already looked.

[agtlaw]

Agree with above.

For info, you’re not limited to only one speed awareness course every three years. If offered then you could, for example, attend a NSAC, NSAC20 and NMAC during the same week.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

PArbor1 said:

I did a course last month and was told it would last three years the same as points would, they didn’t say anything about 3.5 years.

The points count towards totting up for 3 yrs, but last for 5 years.

[Pica-Pica]

jwo said:

Pica-Pica said:

All your answers should be available here. If not, ask there, not on PH.
https://www.ndors.org.uk/

And the answer isn’t available there as I’d already looked.

But you are invited to ask there! That is why I wrote that! Duh!

[BertBert]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

The points count towards totting up for 3 yrs, but last for 5 years.

Define "last"

[TwigtheWonderkid]

BertBert said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

The points count towards totting up for 3 yrs, but last for 5 years.

Define "last"

Disclosable under the rehabilitation of offenders act.