Operation Snap is a secure online facility which allows submissions of video and photographic evidence relating to driving incidents that members of the public have witnessed. Produced with the support of the Department for Transport.
PLEASE NOTE: The secure form is for traffic offences, it is NOT for submitting footage of road traffic collisions or any other offences.
Any reports of parking offences should be referred to the relevant local council or highway authority in the locality where it occurred.
Before continuing:
Ensure that you have read and understand the FAQs below.
You must be able to provide the registration number of the offending vehicle.
You should be prepared to sign a witness statement and possibly give evidence in court.
We can only accept a statement for Operation Snap from persons aged 18 or over. If you are under 18 the incident should be reported by the Report a road traffic incident form.
FAQs
If you have read and understood the FAQs above please go to the Operation Snap form page and complete all relevant fields.
Operation SNAP is the police response to the ever increasing submissions of video and photographic evidence from members of the public in relation to witnessed driving offences.
Operation Snap will investigate road traffic offences such as dangerous driving, driving without due care and attention, careless driving, using a mobile phone handheld, not wearing a seat belt, contravening a red traffic light and contravening solid white lines, however this is not an exhaustive list.
If there has been a serious physical or verbal act of violence following a driving incident then Operation Snap should not be used. The incident should be reported to Devon & Cornwall Police by contacting 101 non-emergency as more serious offences may have been committed. If the threat is happening now call the police emergency line by dialling 999.
No. The police cannot enhance recorded footage, if you are unable to read the vehicle number plate from the original clip, then the police are unlikely to be able to read it when they replay the footage.