Talking of points on your licence

[AndyBeech]

Again it depends what the points were for.

You keep twisting and bending the semantics to try to make a case for your blatantly wrong supposition.

Again, a car does not get marked because a potential driver has points on his/her licence, which is what you were claiming.

Yup, only a license check would tell you about points / driver convictions. Car reg alone would never be marked for that.

It certainly used to be the case that the Police don't have access to the number of points on your licence and they are not allowed to ask you about it when you are stopped (as it might prejudice their later decisions).

Since when? You can ask whatever you want, what decisions would it prejudice exactly?

[Rockhopper]

If you already had ten points and got stopped for speeding with potentially another three points on the way they might be tempted to let you off. The opposite could also apply if they felt in the mood.

[AndyBeech]

If you already had ten points and got stopped for speeding with potentially another three points on the way they might be tempted to let you off. The opposite could also apply if they felt in the mood.

Discretion has always been a tool whether it's known how many points they have or not, chances are they would already know what they're going to do before they even get that information. But as to the point, they could use whatever information they are legally allowed to have to make a decision, long as the end result could be justified should any questions be asked.