More than 45,000 drivers in Sussex have been rapidly caught by volunteers in the last year, showing new figures.
Sussex Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) Katy Born shared the conclusions for 2024/25 during the meeting of the County Police and Crime Panel on Thursday.
With the work of community speedwatch volunteers, the public reported more than 13,000 incidents of dangerous and anti -social driving through Operation Crackdown.
Presenting its annual report, the PCC stated that the figures were “quite quite quiet”.
“It is no wonder that we are seeing an increase in conflict on our streets,” he said.
Ms. Born confirmed that another 772 report was made through a separate road safety initiative, Operation Downsway.
As a result, according to the local democracy reporting service, more than 30,000 people were given the opportunity to participate in driver training courses as an alternative to prosecution.
At the end of March, the Sussex Police left the safe Rhodes Partnership and was announced that a dedicated fatal five rhodes unit would be established to deal with issues such as speed.
Deadly five are committing crimes that are the main contributors for serious and fatal accidents – not wearing additional speed, seats, to be distracted by things like phone, drink and drug driving, and careless and inconsistent driving.
Ms. Born confirmed that the commercial case for the unit was now complete.
He said: “Now we are in this process with the scopping team. It started this month and we are due to that report in October.
“So hopefully it will be established in the new year. But these things take some time.”
