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NZ tickets, by the numbers
Nobody official publishes how often NZ infringement disputes succeed — not Police, not NZTA, not the councils. We're building that dataset from real cases, and this page is where it gets published: honestly, with sample sizes shown, or not at all.
Enforcement is at record levels
- ~538,000 officer-issued speeding fines in 2025 — a 16-year high, up from ~461,000 in 2024 (NZ Herald).
- The camera surge: NZTA took over the safety camera network in 2025 and issued ~79,000 camera notices in its first two months (1News); the new mobile trailers caught 73,000+ drivers in their first six months (1News).
- The fine schedule runs $30–$600 by speed band; camera tickets carry zero demerit points, officer tickets 10–50. Full tables in speeding fines and demerit points.
- Disputes are decided on paper: written representations go to a Police adjudicator, NZTA's safety-camera team or the issuing council — and the decision typically arrives in 2–6 weeks.
What Police's own data shows — released to us under the OIA
In July 2026, NZ Police released to us — under the Official Information Act (ref IR-01-26-24762) — five years of infringement outcomes: every notice from 2021–2025 by year, district, offence category and disposition. The source files are below so anyone can check our numbers. What they show:
| Year | Notices waived (all reasons) | Waived after a written explanation was accepted |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 43,638 | 3,794 |
| 2022 | 55,530 | 3,528 |
| 2023 | 54,808 | 3,418 |
| 2024 | 50,263 | 2,478 |
| 2025* | 48,807 | 1,670 |
* 2025 camera data covers January–June only — the camera network transferred to NZTA on 1 July 2025 (NZTA's data instalment is still to come). Totals include all Police infringement notices, including non-traffic (W-series) infringements. Provisional data from a dynamic operational database.
- 253,046 notices were waived in five years — roughly 50,000 a year. Asking works at scale; almost nobody asks.
- 14,888 were waived because a written explanation was accepted — including 8,464 speed-camera tickets. Written representations succeed thousands of times a year, in Police's own disposition codes.
- 17,873 camera tickets were waived with no explanation needed — Police's own definition for that code: camera operator deployment errors and photo batches that should never have been entered. The camera is not always right.
- 2,807,021 notices went unpaid to Ministry of Justice collections in the same five years. Millions ignore their tickets and end up with debt collectors; fifty thousand a year write in and walk away.
- Only ~700–1,000 people a year request a defended court hearing, nationwide.
- The squeeze is on: officer-issued speeding enforcement roughly doubled over the period (313,076 → 535,446 notices) while explanation-based waivers fell from 3,794 to 1,670 a year.
What this release deliberately can't tell you: a dispute success rate. Police confirmed they don't record how many disputes are received (refused under s 18(g) — not held), so the waiver counts above are successes without a denominator. That missing number is exactly what our tracked-outcome tables below exist to supply. Source documents: the Police response letter (PDF) · the full data spreadsheet (XLSX).
Real dispute outcomes — published when the sample is credible
Every letter we draft carries an anonymous, signed case record; customers report the result through the case tracker or our follow-up email, and each outcome stays tied to its original estimate, grounds, issuer and city — so nothing can be cherry-picked after the fact. A table appears here only once its slice holds 10+ resolved cases (and the section unlocks at 25+ outcomes overall).
🔒 The first tables are still unlocking. We'd rather show you nothing than a percentage built on a handful of cases. As tracked disputes resolve, the waive-rate tables — by ground, issuer, city and ticket type — appear here automatically. Had a dispute decided? Reporting the outcome in your case tracker is what makes this page possible.
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What percentage of speeding tickets get waived in NZ?
No official success rate exists — Police confirmed to us under the OIA (IR-01-26-24762) that they don't record how many disputes are received, so a percentage can't be computed from their data. What their release does show: roughly 50,000 notices are waived every year, and 14,888 were waived over five years specifically because a written explanation was accepted — including 8,464 camera tickets. The missing success-rate denominator is what our tracked-outcome tables on this page exist to supply.
Where does your dispute data come from?
Every dispute letter we draft carries an anonymous, cryptographically signed case record. Customers report the outcome through the case tracker or our follow-up email, and each result is tied to the original estimate, grounds, issuer and city — so the numbers can't be cherry-picked after the fact. No names, notice numbers or registrations are stored in the dataset.
Why are some tables missing or locked?
We publish a slice only once it holds at least 10 resolved cases, and the outcome tables only once 25 real outcomes exist overall. Small samples produce impressive-looking but meaningless percentages — overseas ticket apps advertise unverifiable success claims, and we'd rather show real numbers or nothing.
How many tickets are issued in New Zealand?
Enforcement is at record levels: Police officers issued roughly 538,000 speeding fines in 2025 — a 16-year high — and since NZTA took over the safety camera network in 2025, camera volumes have surged, with about 79,000 camera notices issued in NZTA's first two months alone and 73,000+ from the new mobile trailers in their first six months.
Do camera tickets carry demerit points?
No — camera-detected offences carry the fine only, never demerit points. Officer-issued speeding tickets carry 10–50 points depending on the speed band, and 100 points within two years means a three-month licence suspension.
Sources: NZ Herald and 1News reporting on Police and NZTA enforcement volumes (linked above), Land Transport (Offences and Penalties) Regulations 1999, NZ Police and NZTA published dispute guidance. Outcome data is self-reported by customers and anonymised; sample sizes are shown alongside every figure. GetMeOff.co.nz provides automated document drafting and general information only — it is not legal advice and no outcome is guaranteed.