Ms Paula Hilman:

Very much so. It is one of our lifesaver offences. The number of detections has decreased from the 2019 figure and we have been looking at how we can increase the number of those detections. We have talked about technology in vehicles, which has undoubtedly had an impact. It used to be that only the driver's seat had an alarm for someone not wearing a seatbelt, whereas that is now also the case for the passenger and rear seats. I talked earlier about how we have a fleet of unmarked vehicles for the detection of people not wearing seatbelts. Other jurisdictions use safety cameras to detect a lack of seatbelt use, so there is potential for that. It is one of our lifesaver offences. When we send out our roads policing operational plan, seatbelt use is covered on a weekly basis. We also have specific campaigns for young people and on our schools programme, and even that encouragement of children as passengers to their parents helps. So far this year, we have detected 3,800 people not wearing their seatbelt.