The National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) has published its 2026/27 calendar of operations, starting with a week-long engagement initiative focussing on motorcyclists in March.
The NPCC co-ordinates a number of operations throughout the year, receiving widespread support from police forces across the country.
The 2026 calendar starts with an Engagement Operation for Motorcyclists (23-29 March).
The operation will focus on leisure riders who will be getting back on their bikes after a long break over the winter period. The comms operation will focus on a number of key safety areas making sure they are well prepared and reminded of the dangers.
During April, a four week operation will take place, targeting all vehicles and road users in relation to the fatal four offences (1-28 April). This running of Operation Spotlight will have an extra focus on seatbelts due to an increasing number of collisions where seatbelts have been noted as a contributory factor.
ROADPOL, the Network of European Traffic Police Forces, will be running a speed operation from 13–19 April, with a speed marathon on 15 April.
This is followed by the NPCC 2Wheel Operation (1-14 June), coming during the peak season for cycling and motorcycling.
The NPCC will run a second Operation Spotlight during July (1-31 July), once again focussing on the fatal four causes of road collisions.
NPCC encourages forces to plan cross border operations, to utilise partner agencies, plan joint roads policing operations and to promote all activity via comms.
A further Operation Spotlight runs between 14 Sept and 4 October, this time with a focus on young drivers.
Heading into autumn, the NPCC will be co-ordinating Operation Insight (26 Oct – 8 Nov), focussing on pedestrians and horse riders. It will promote safer behaviour among all road users who share road space, and has been timed to coincide with when the clocks change and to also cover Halloween.
The operation will also cover the importance of eyesight and drivers meeting the minimum standard to support the road safety strategy and due to the number of collisions involving older drivers where poor eyesight was a contributory factor.
In November, Operation Drive Insured takes place between 9-15 November. The operation is a MIB led operation working together with the police to reduce the number of insured drivers on our roads.
Alongside enforcement activity, MIB leads a public awareness campaign across press and social channels to highlight common insurance mistakes and their consequences, encouraging positive, informed driver behaviour.
This is also an opportunity to identify other motoring and criminal offences as data shows people who drive without insurance are more likely to commit other offences.
As is tradition, Operation Limit – which focuses on drink and drug drivers – will run between 1 December 2026 and 1 January 2027.
The year 2027 kicks off with a two-week Commercial Vehicle operation (25 January – 7 February).
This operation will cover several areas including: insecure loads, HGVs, LGVs and work-related road risk.
Details of all the campaigns can be found via the Road Safety GB calendar.
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