Warning! Accused of leaving driver awareness course early! You can avoid this! Use this simple tip

WEASELL

I did the driver awareness course for Dorset police.
They waited nearly a month to tell me I departed early and needed to pay an extra £100.
The point of this post is that if I had been smart enough to take even one screen shot near the end of the training this could not happen to me.
please tell all your friends.
Never do a driver awareness course without taking screenshots.
Don’t delete the photos for at least two months after you have done the course.

400ixl

Did you leave early?

Never been on one, do they get people to sign anything at the end to show they have completed the day?

mark1959

Yes you do sign at the end. And you get to keep the pen!

Kim_13

It’s clear from the original post that the OP did the course online, a relatively recent innovation. If you attend in person then there would be nothing to take a screenshot of.

As £100 is the fixed penalty amount, are they also going to be endorsing your licence because of the provider’s claim that you left early?

WEASELL

Yes! They are trying to obtain £100 and put three points on my licence.
Dorset police phoned me today.
I said ‘ I will see you in court’
They said ‘ you can debate the original offence in court but not this’.

I am so desperate that the screenshot advice gets out there and no one else has to go through this. Everyone must know to do this to protect themselves.

I said I was using the chat box all the way through. Their answer ‘ there is no evidence of this’

WEASELL

Sorry ! To the other posters, I realise I didn’t make it clear I was referring to the online training!

Because also you notice that 20 mile per hour speed limits are going up everywhere. As soon as the dust settles there will be cameras put up. Then thousands and thousands of people will be milked for money like a heard of jersey cows. That is bad enough, but no one needs false accusations of departing from the training early.

WEASELL

I do know that cows come in herds not heards !

WEASELL

Kim_13 said:

It’s clear from the original post that the OP did the course online, a relatively recent innovation. If you attend in person then there would be nothing to take a screenshot of.

As £100 is the fixed penalty amount, are they also going to be endorsing your licence because of the provider’s claim that you left early?

Thank you for your quick and immediate understanding. Do you know of anyone else That has had problems ?

Car_54

It may be worth noting that Dorset is unique. It is the only force in E and W that runs its own courses, not part of the NDORS scheme, so the OP’s experience may not be typical.

WEASELL

Car_54 said:

It may be worth noting that Dorset is unique. It is the only force in E and W that runs its own courses, not part of the NDORS scheme, so the OP’s experience may not be typical.

Car_54 said:

It may be worth noting that Dorset is unique. It is the only force in E and W that runs its own courses, not part of the NDORS scheme, so the OP’s experience may not be typical.

Many thanks, That is very interesting information. I will be making information requests ,under the data protection 2000 act in the next few days and This is the type of information I need.
Also it’s great to think perhaps there are more safeguards for the rest of the country.

Car_54

WEASELL said:

Car_54 said:

It may be worth noting that Dorset is unique. It is the only force in E and W that runs its own courses, not part of the NDORS scheme, so the OP’s experience may not be typical.

Car_54 said:

It may be worth noting that Dorset is unique. It is the only force in E and W that runs its own courses, not part of the NDORS scheme, so the OP’s experience may not be typical.

Many thanks, That is very interesting information. I will be making information requests ,under the data protection 2000 act in the next few days and This is the type of information I need.
Also it’s great to think perhaps there are more safeguards for the rest of the country.

Hi. You need to be aware that there is absolutely no legal basis for these courses. They are offered and operated entirety at the police’s discretion, to give you an opportunity to avoid any other action.

It follows that if they decide you haven’t complied in some way, there is no  mechanism to appeal, so things revert to fixed penalty or court. Again, that is essentially at their discretion.