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Speeding Drivers in Herts offered Training Courses instead of Points

Some speeding drivers in Hertfordshire are offered the opportunity to attend a National Speed Awareness course in lieu of receiving a fixed penalty notice.

Hertfordshire County Council introduced the scheme in 2006 - it allows certain drivers caught speeding by safety cameras to attend the one day course instead of receiving three penalty points and a £60 fine, or proceeding to court.
Hertfordshire Police has commissioned the county council’s road safety unit to run the training, which will be by Police invitation only.
The courses are an opportunity to offer drivers help and advice in their awareness of speed limits and to improve their driving. They last for six hours and include both a classroom and practical session, costing £105.
As the courses are run to a national syllabus, drivers who are offered the course can elect to attend any of the available ones around the country. Hertfordshire is the eighth authority to sign up to the scheme and it is expected that all police forces in the UK will have signed up by 2010.
The scheme builds on the success of the National Driver Improvement Scheme, for drivers facing a summons for ‘Driving without due care’ which has been running in the county since 1996.
The scheme is governed by a National Steering Group including the Department for Transport, Association of Chief Police Officers and the Home Office.