Speeding in Holyland Road 922/2025

FOI Reference: 922/2025

Request

1. How many individuals have been prosecuted for breaking the speed limit on Holyland Road Pembroke during the period 1 Jan 2025 to 31 August 2025
2. On what dates during 2025 was a speed enforcement officer was deployed on Holyland Road Pembroke.
3. How many vehicles during the period 1 Jan 2025 to 31 August 2025 have been reported in the Pembroke area for having an exhaust having a noise level in excess of 72dB.

Clarification Received

Re: Q1 I am after both set if information, basically how many were issued with some form of reprimand for breaking the speed limit set on the road either via a police stop or a mobile traffic camera.

Re: Q3 I am looking to see if any individual car owners were issued by the police some form of reprimand relating to excess noise. This could have resulted from a 101/999 complaint or during a routine traffic stop by the police.

Response

Section 1 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 places two duties on public authorities. Unless exemptions apply, the first duty at Section 1(1) (a) is to confirm or deny whether the information specified in a request is held. The second duty at Section 1(1) (b) is to disclose information that has been confirmed as being held.

Where exemptions are relied upon Section 17 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 requires Dyfed Powys Police, when refusing to provide such information (because the information is exempt) to provide you the applicant with a notice which:   (a) states that fact, (b) specifies the exemption in question and (c) states (if that would not otherwise be apparent) why the exemption applies.

I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information you have requested. However, we are withholding the whole of the requested information since we consider that the Section 12(1) exemption the Cost of Compliance exceeds the Appropriate Limit applies to it.

Section 12 (1) – The cost of compliance exceeds the Appropriate Limit

Section 12(1) states: “…Section 1 (1) does not oblige a public authority to comply with a request for information if the authority estimates that the cost of complying with the request would exceed the appropriate limit.”

The cost of providing you with the information requested in respect of your request is above the amount to which we are legally required to respond i.e. the cost of locating and retrieving the information exceeds the “appropriate level” as stated in the Freedom of Information (Fees and Appropriate Limit) Regulations 2004. It is estimated that it would exceed 18 hours (i.e. minimum of 2,408 hours) to comply with this part of your request. The regulations can be located @ https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/3244

The Freedom of Information department has been advised that the information in respect of Question 3 of your request is not held in an easily retrievable format. In light of this and in order to accurately obtain the information relative to your request for the time frame stipulated would involve Dyfed Powys Police accessing and manually reviewing 14,450 records, due to the fact that we cannot keyword search on our system to narrow down the search for the information requested for vehicles having loud exhausts or for narrowing down to just Pembroke area.

These types of incidents would be categorised as ASB or Traffic incidents.

It has also been established that it would take a minimum of 10 minutes to review and obtain the information for a single record in respect of your request. 

The process outlined results in the below time estimate:-

2779 ASB incidents x 10 minutes per incident = 463 hours

11671 T-other incidents x 10 minutes per incident = 1945 hours

Time estimate to complete task = 2,408 hours

In accordance therefore with the Freedom of Information Act 2000, this letter acts as a Refusal Notice for the Whole of this request under Section 17(5) A public authority which, in relation to any request for information, is relying on a claim that section 12 or section 14 applies must, within the time for complying with section 1(1), give the applicant a notice stating that fact.

You may wish to refine and resubmit your request so that it reduces the time shown above to fall within the 18 hours, should you require any further advice in relation to this matter please don’t hesitate to contact the Freedom of Information Unit. Please also be advised that should the request be refined, it does not remove the public authorities right to cite exemptions if relevant.

Although excess cost removes the forces obligations under the Freedom of Information Act to provide any further information, as a gesture of goodwill, I have provided information, relative to Question 1, Q2 and part of Q3 of your request which has been easily retrievable and outlined below. I trust this is helpful, but it does not affect our legal right to rely on the fees regulations for the remainder of your request.

Response Q1

The number of individuals stopped by an officer and issued with a fine is Nil (0).

The number of individuals stopped by an officer and issued with a fine at court will also be 0

We have not carried out any enforcement at this location by Casualty Reduction Officers within the requested time period - 0

Response Q2

So far in 2025 there have been no Casualty Reduction Officers deployed on Holyland Road Pembroke.

Response Q3 (Clarification question)

Please note: The number of individuals stopped by an officer and issued with a fine for this offence is Nil (0)

It should be noted that as a result of the systems adopted by Dyfed-Powys Police in relation to the recording of such information that the information released may or may not be accurate.

(This is a response under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and disclosed on 25/09/2025)