DVLA Driver database

maninthestreet

The police are investigating a motoring offence from 40+ years ago??

TrickyWicky

minerva123 wrote: »

Thanks for replies, think I need to elaborate, but without going into too many details, a friend has given a statement to the police on someone about something and person has denied having a motorbike. Just wondered if the police could find this out by searching the DVLA database by their name and/or address, not sure if they have done this. Would like to think the police have done this if possible but just a thought that it may not have been.
As I said it was in the 1960's and no idea whether the information would a) go this far back and b) be searchable by name and not registration. Nothing on the DVLA web site contact details covers this. Thanks.

Well in that case you better leave the issue alone or by this very thread existing you could be done for interfering with a police investigation.

If you're looking to cover your own back (so many people refer to friends lol) you'll just have to wait and see. The police may have other tactics for checking these things out - they're professional investigators who do this stuff day in / out. Even if the DVLA don't have records, other places such as classic vehicle clubs might.

TrickyWicky

goonarmy wrote: »

I would hazard that if someone had a motorbike in the sixties then denyied nearly nobody would care.
If the police are interested it'll been checked by now.

I think what you really mean is that if the police are interested after all this time, it's clearly a serious matter they're investigating and not a speeding offence.

This thread needs locking. The op has just admitted the police are involved and they're trying to second guess what the police are doing / stay ahead of them.

If the op or their friend has tipped off the police, fair enough leave them to it is what most people would do but the op has other interests and reasons for wanting to know.

scheming_gypsy

TrickyWicky wrote: »

Well in that case you better leave the issue alone or by this very thread existing you could be done for interfering with a police investigation.

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Highly unlikely as there's no details of who the OP is, who their friend is, what the bike reg is, who the other person is and which police department are involved.



but if you want to know if somebody in the 60's owned a bike, look through their photo album. There'll no doubt be a picture of some fuzzy headed chap in dodgy jeans and a flowery shirt, standing next to it and grinning.

Lum

I doubt you'll have any joy trying to obtain such data yourself.

I've actually tried to do something similar, only a lot easier than your request. I was after the number of cars made by Subaru currently registered that had a chassis number starting with the digits BE5. I used the Freedom of Information Act.

Anyone who has a vague idea of how databases work knows that this is a simple query that you could do in a single SELECT statement.

They claimed that finding this data would cost over £1000 in labour costs, of which the bulk were "designing the query" and "testing the performance impact on their systems" and that since the price was so high it was exempt from FOI.

Your query has even less chance of succeeding. For one you are after personally identifiable information, and secondly the data you are after is so old it's pre-computerisation and so probably stored in a dark cellar in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of The Leopard".

Buzby

The Driver database holds no records of vehicles. If you mean the vehicle (Registered Keeper) database, then they can look up all the keepers but not 'who was driving'.

The DVLA took over from councils in 1968 (I believe) so no info prior to this will be stored.

vaio

Lum wrote: »

.......Your query has even less chance of succeeding. For one you are after personally identifiable information, and secondly the data you are after is so old it's pre-computerisation and so probably stored in a dark cellar in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of The Leopard".

For '60s info in DVLA the sign will likely say "Beware of The Leopardosaurus"

Iceweasel

And don't expect DVLA staff to respond quickly to anything.

I reckon even moving a mouse across a mouse pad could be too much for some of them.

Some are even apparently so unfit to move from their desks they even need assistance to get to the gym - never mind do any exercises once they get there.

See here:

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/unfit-dvla-staff-driven-gym-6107645

Rover_Driver

Buzby wrote: »

The DVLA took over from councils in 1968 (I believe) so no info prior to this will be stored.

August 1973 for new registrations, and from then on, as vehicles were re-licensed the details were transferred from the local authorities to (what was) the DVLC.

Lum

So conclusion:

The DVLA don't have the data, and even if they did, they won't give it to you.