One offence on an expiation notice or formal caution written by a police officer, with the incident date and time, the offence code and description, the notice and offence status, the police district, the vehicle, the speed and limit, the blood alcohol reading, and the penalty, levy, corporate fee and total.

Why is the speed or blood alcohol 0?

The publisher writes 0 where no speed was recorded or no breath test was conducted. The value is kept as published.

Which period does the table cover?

The financial year of the newest report, 2026-27 at the first version, which the publisher replaces as the year goes on. Each new file becomes a version here.

Why are the amounts text?

The publisher writes each amount with a dollar sign and a thousands separator, such as $1,002. The amounts are kept as published.

Datasets / South Australia / SAPOL / Expiation notices, South Australia Police

Traffic and other offences on police-issued expiation notices, South Australia

Name: Traffic and other offences on police-issued expiation notices, South Australia
Creator: South Australia Police
Published: 2026-09-28
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Publisher South Australia PoliceUpdated monthlyLicence CC BY 4.0Latest 2026-09-28Rows 27,070Fields 20

The Manual Notice Offence Report from South Australia Police's Expiation Notice Branch, covering notices and cautions written by officers rather than raised from cameras. Each row is one offence, with the notice type, the notice and offence status and any withdrawal reason, the incident date and time, the offence code and description, the issue date, the police district, the vehicle and the states of licence and registration, the speed and limit, the blood alcohol content and the amounts. Unlike the camera report it carries no event or notice identifier.

Also called: SAPOL Manual Notice Offence Report, SA on-the-spot fines, South Australian police traffic infringements.

Part of Expiation notices, South Australia Police, 4 tables the publisher releases together: Speed and red light camera offences, South Australia, Safety camera detections not issued as offences, South Australia, Mobile safety camera location codes, South Australia.

Before you use it

What is in each row?: One offence on an expiation notice or formal caution written by a police officer, with the incident date and time, the offence code and description, the notice and offence status, the police district, the vehicle, the speed and limit, the blood alcohol reading, and the penalty, levy, corporate fee and total.
Why is the speed or blood alcohol 0?: The publisher writes 0 where no speed was recorded or no breath test was conducted. The value is kept as published.
Which period does the table cover?: The financial year of the newest report, 2026-27 at the first version, which the publisher replaces as the year goes on. Each new file becomes a version here.
Why are the amounts text?: The publisher writes each amount with a dollar sign and a thousands separator, such as $1,002. The amounts are kept as published.

Made for agents

Connect your AI agent

Any agent that connects to publicdata.au/mcp can find this dataset, read its 20 fields, count and filter across all 27,070 rows and diff its versions. Every answer names the version and carries SAPOL's attribution. No key.

Then ask it: What does Traffic and other offences on police-issued expiation notices, South Australia hold, and what changed in the newest version?

claude mcp add --transport http publicdata https://publicdata.au/mcp

One command. No key, no account, no sign-up.

https://publicdata.au/mcp

Streamable HTTP. Cursor, VS Code or any client that connects to a remote MCP server.

Using https://publicdata.au/llms.txt, how many people died on Queensland roads in 2025, by month?

For an assistant that reads the web and has no connector.

ExploreChart every row in your browser

A dashboard over every row. Click to filter, add panels, share a link or embed a frame.

Query APIFilter and count from a URL

aggregate?group=offence_description&metric=count

Offences by offence: 3,816 EXCEED SIGNED SPEED BY 10 - 19 KPH, 1,612 DRIVE AN UNREGISTERED MOTOR VEHICLE ON A ROAD, 1,251 FAIL TO WEAR APPROPRIATE BICYCLE HELMET, 1,224 EXCEED SIGNED SPEED BY 1 TO 9KPH.

Download it as Excel, CSV, JSON and 6 more formats

Pick a format and a version. Excel is picked first because it opens in the tools most offices have. The URL is yours to keep. A dated version never changes.

Format

Version "Latest" redirects to the newest version and will change when the publisher releases again. A dated version never changes.

https://publicdata.au/d/sa-police-expiation-offences/latest/data.xlsx

Download

In your own tools

Use it in Excel, R, Python and more

Excel and Power BI read the CSV from its address and refresh from it. The R and Python packages take any dataset on this site by its slug, so a new dataset needs no new release. The DuckDB file attaches read-only over HTTPS, and a query reads only the blocks it touches.

The dated URL in the code never changes. https://publicdata.au/d/sa-police-expiation-offences/latest/ redirects to the newest version.

https://publicdata.au/d/sa-police-expiation-offences/latest/data.csv

In Excel choose Data, then From Web, and paste this address. Excel keeps it, so Refresh All reads the newest version. A sheet holds about a million rows; past that, load the query to the Data Model.

https://publicdata.au/d/sa-police-expiation-offences/latest/data.csv

In Power BI Desktop choose Get data, then Web, paste this address and choose Anonymous when asked how to sign in. A scheduled refresh reads the same address, so the report follows each new version.

library(publicdataau)
df <- pd_read("sa-police-expiation-offences")
pd_attribution(df)

install.packages("publicdataau"). pd_read() fetches the version's Parquet file; pd_rows() and pd_aggregate() ask the query API instead, and pd_connect() attaches the DuckDB file.

import publicdata_au as pd_au
df = pd_au.read("sa-police-expiation-offences")
df.attrs["publicdata"]["attribution"]

pip install "publicdata-au[pandas]". read() fetches the version's Parquet file; rows() and aggregate() ask the query API, and connect() attaches the DuckDB file.

INSTALL httpfs; LOAD httpfs;
ATTACH 'https://publicdata.au/d/sa-police-expiation-offences/v/2026-09-28/data.duckdb' AS sa_police_expiation_offences (READ_ONLY);
SELECT notice_type, count(*) FROM sa_police_expiation_offences.records GROUP BY 1 ORDER BY 2 DESC;

The DuckDB file attaches read-only over HTTPS and only the blocks a query touches are read. Parquet works the same way: FROM read_parquet(url).

const res = await fetch("https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/sa-police-expiation-offences/aggregate?group=offence_description&metric=count");
const { rows, publicdata } = await res.json();
console.log(rows, publicdata.attribution);

The query API answers a page on any site as well as Node, with no key. It returns the rows and the attribution the licence asks for.

What is in it

Column names are made snake_case and the publisher's original header is kept beside each one. Blank cells are null. Nothing is added, removed, ranked or summarised.

Field	Type	Publisher's header	Note
notice_type	string	Notice Type Desc
notice_status	string	Notice Status
offence_status	string	Offence Status
withdrawn_reason	string	Withdrawn Reason
incident_date	date	Incident Start Date
incident_time	string	Time 24 Hour - Incident Start	24-hour time, as published, such as 0:05.
offence_code	string	Expiation Offence Code
offence_description	string	Expiation Offence Description
issue_date	date	Issue Date
district	string	District/Service Area
vehicle_description	string	Vehicle Description
licence_state	string	Licence State
registration_state	string	Registration State
vehicle_speed	integer	Vehicle Speed
speed_limit	integer	Expiation Zone Speed Limit
blood_alcohol_content	number	Blood Alcohol Content	0 where no test was conducted, as the publisher records it.
penalty_amount	string	Offence Penalty Amount	The legislated penalty for the offence at the time. As published, in dollars with a dollar sign, such as $1,002.
victims_of_crime_levy	string	Victim Of Crime Levy Amount	The levy at the time of the incident. As published, in dollars with a dollar sign, such as $1,002.
corporate_fee	string	Corporate Fee Amount	The fee where the vehicle is registered to a company. As published, in dollars with a dollar sign, such as $1,002.
offence_total	string	Offence Total	The penalty, levy and corporate fee together. As published, in dollars with a dollar sign, such as $1,002.

Download this table as a data dictionary (Excel), or read it as a Frictionless Table Schema at schema.json.

A sample of 10 rows

From the latest version, newest first by incident date, each notice type in turn, then in the publisher's order, with every field. A blank cell is shown as null.

notice_type	notice_status	offence_status	withdrawn_reason	incident_date	incident_time	offence_code	offence_description	issue_date	district	vehicle_description	licence_state	registration_state	vehicle_speed	speed_limit	penalty_amount	victims_of_crime_levy	corporate_fee	offence_total
EXPIATION NOTICE	ISSUED	ISSUED	null	2026-08-31	0:05	A481	RIDE BICYCLE AT NIGHT WITHOUT FRONT WHITE LIGHT	2026-08-31	SOUTHERN DISTRICT	null	SOUTH AUSTRALIA	SOUTH AUSTRALIA	0	0	$72	$108	$0	$180
CAUTION ONLY	CAUTION	CAUTION	null	2026-08-31	0:23	A001	EXCEED SIGNED SPEED BY 1 TO 9KPH	2026-09-01	SOUTHERN DISTRICT	24 WHITE TOYOTA HIRECAR	SOUTH AUSTRALIA	SOUTH AUSTRALIA	49	40	$0	$0	$0	$0
EXPIATION NOTICE	ISSUED	ISSUED	null	2026-08-31	0:05	A482	RIDE BICYCLE AT NIGHT WITHOUT REAR RED LIGHT	2026-08-31	SOUTHERN DISTRICT	null	SOUTH AUSTRALIA	SOUTH AUSTRALIA	0	0	$72	$108	$0	$180
CAUTION ONLY	CAUTION	CAUTION	null	2026-08-31	1:30	V204	FAILURE OF DRIVER TO RECORD THE REQUIRED INFORMATION IN THE DRIVERS WORK DIARY	2026-09-07	WESTERN DISTRICT	INTERSTATE OR OVERSEAS PLATE	VICTORIA	VICTORIA	0	0	$0	$0	$0	$0
EXPIATION NOTICE	ISSUED	ISSUED	null	2026-08-31	0:05	C007	POSSESS EQUIP FOR USE IN CONNECTION WITH SMOKING OR CONSUMPTION OF CANNABIS/RESIN	2026-08-31	SOUTHERN DISTRICT	null	SOUTH AUSTRALIA	SOUTH AUSTRALIA	0	0	$250	$108	$0	$358
CAUTION ONLY	CAUTION	CAUTION	null	2026-08-31	1:40	A229	DRIVE NIGHT/IN HAZARDOUS WEATHER WITHOUT EFFECTIVELIGHTS	2026-09-01	SOUTHERN DISTRICT	10 GREY KIA STN WAGON	SOUTH AUSTRALIA	SOUTH AUSTRALIA	0	0	$0	$0	$0	$0
EXPIATION NOTICE	ISSUED	ISSUED	null	2026-08-31	1:00	A681	LICENSED DRIVER TO ACCOMPANY LEARNER	2026-08-31	NORTHERN DISTRICT	14 RED-MARO TOYOTA SEDAN	SOUTH AUSTRALIA	SOUTH AUSTRALIA	0	0	$456	$108	$0	$564
CAUTION ONLY	CAUTION	CAUTION	null	2026-08-31	2:48	A091	FAIL SIGNAL SUFFICIENT WARNING OF RIGHT CHANGE DIRECTION	2026-08-31	SOUTHERN DISTRICT	18 WHITE HYUNDAI HIRECAR	SOUTH AUSTRALIA	SOUTH AUSTRALIA	0	0	$0	$0	$0	$0
EXPIATION NOTICE	ISSUED	ISSUED	null	2026-08-31	1:00	A682	DRIVING WITH NO "L" PLATES AFFIXED	2026-08-31	NORTHERN DISTRICT	14 RED-MARO TOYOTA SEDAN	SOUTH AUSTRALIA	SOUTH AUSTRALIA	0	0	$456	$108	$0	$564
CAUTION ONLY	CAUTION	CAUTION	null	2026-08-31	4:40	A136	FAIL TO STOP AT STOP LINE AT TWIN RED LIGHTS	2026-08-31	EASTERN DISTRICT	21 BLACK TESLA HIRECAR	SOUTH AUSTRALIA	SOUTH AUSTRALIA	0	0	$0	$0	$0	$0

The first row as JSON

As it appears in data.json.

GET https://publicdata.au/d/sa-police-expiation-offences/latest/data.json
{
  "notice_type": "CAUTION ONLY",
  "notice_status": "CAUTION",
  "offence_status": "CAUTION",
  "withdrawn_reason": null,
  "incident_date": "2026-07-01",
  "incident_time": "0:02",
  "offence_code": "A316",
  "offence_description": "FAIL DRIVE LEFT OF CENTRE OF ROAD WITHOUT MEDIAN  STRIP",
  "issue_date": "2026-07-10",
  "district": "SOUTHERN DISTRICT",
  "vehicle_description": "12 SILVER MAZDA SEDAN",
  "licence_state": "SOUTH AUSTRALIA",
  "registration_state": "SOUTH AUSTRALIA",
  "vehicle_speed": 0,
  "speed_limit": 0,
  "blood_alcohol_content": 0.0,
  "penalty_amount": "$0",
  "victims_of_crime_levy": "$0",
  "corporate_fee": "$0",
  "offence_total": "$0"
}

Query it without downloading

The query API returns only the rows you ask for, as JSON, NDJSON or CSV, from the same typed rows as the files. It needs no key. Build a query here and run it, then copy the URL or the code into your own work.

Try rows or aggregate for this dataset. The query builder needs JavaScript.

How filters work

Each filter is field=operator.value in the query string, and every filter must match. A number or date field compares as a number or date, and a text field compares as text. Values are case-sensitive except with ilike. Prefix not. to negate a filter, as not.eq.value.

Operator	What it matches
eq.value	Equal to the value.
neq.value	Not equal to the value. A blank cell does not match.
gt.value	Greater than the value.
gte.value	Greater than or equal to the value.
lt.value	Less than the value.
lte.value	Less than or equal to the value.
like.text	Matches a pattern where * stands for any run of characters. Case-sensitive.
ilike.text	The same as like, ignoring case.
in.(a,b,c)	Equal to any value in the list. A value cannot contain a comma.
is.null	Blank in the source, or suppressed by the publisher.

Parameter	What it does
select	Fields to return, comma-separated. Every field when absent.
order	field.asc or field.desc, comma-separated. The publisher's row order when absent.
limit	Rows per page, 1 to 10,000. 100 when absent.
offset	Rows to skip. The next URL in each answer sets it for you.
group	On aggregate, fields to group by, comma-separated.
metric	On aggregate, count, sum.field, avg.field, min.field or max.field, comma-separated. count when absent.
format	json, ndjson or csv. JSON carries the provenance header, and the others carry it in response headers.

Without a version the API answers from the newest loaded version, and that answer changes when the publisher releases again. Put versions/<date>/ before rows or aggregate for an answer that never changes. /api/v1/datasets/<slug>/versions lists the loaded versions. The 1 newest version is loaded; versions lists them.

The API allows 60 requests in 10 seconds from one address. Above that it answers 429 for 10 seconds with a Retry-After header, a RateLimit-Policy header and a JSON body that gives the limit. Every API answer carries the same RateLimit-Policy. A client should wait the Retry-After seconds, or read the files, which have no limit. openapi.json describes this dataset's query paths for client generators and agents.

https://publicdata.au/mcp is a remote MCP server over Streamable HTTP with the same tools, defined in the same place, so a tool added to the pages is added here too. It needs no key and no account. The row tools are held to the query API's limit of 60 queries in 10 seconds from one address, and each call is two queries because it also counts the matching rows. Add it to Claude Code with claude mcp add --transport http publicdata https://publicdata.au/mcp, add the URL in Claude as a custom connector, or give it to any client that connects to remote MCP servers. Each queryable dataset is also a resource at https://publicdata.au/d/<slug>/fields.json, which lists its fields with their types, the publisher's descriptions, their ranges and the values they hold, so an agent can read a dataset's shape before it writes a query.

Smaller files

The same rows split by a field, one JSON file each. Each file carries the same provenance header.

By notice_type (2 files)

CAUTION ONLY EXPIATION NOTICE

by/notice_type/index.json lists every file with its row count.

What changed

One version for every release the publisher has made since this site started following the dataset. The date is the day the file changed on the portal.

2026-09-28
27,070 rows20 fieldszip6911578b0dce

versions.json · changes.json · history.tar.zst (324 KB, every version's Parquet and manifest)

Questions

How do I download Traffic and other offences on police-issued expiation notices as a CSV file?

Open https://publicdata.au/d/sa-police-expiation-offences/latest/data.csv. It redirects to the newest dated version, which is https://publicdata.au/d/sa-police-expiation-offences/v/2026-09-28/data.csv today. The same path serves Excel, JSON, Parquet, SQLite, DuckDB, NDJSON, Arrow. A dated URL never changes, so use it when the file must stay the same.

Can I open Traffic and other offences on police-issued expiation notices in Excel?

Yes. https://publicdata.au/d/sa-police-expiation-offences/v/2026-09-28/data.xlsx is a workbook with the 27,070 rows on a records sheet, the field list on a second sheet and the provenance on a third. The CSV also opens in Excel. https://publicdata.au/d/sa-police-expiation-offences/v/2026-09-28/data.csv.gz is the CSV at about a tenth of the size.

How often is Traffic and other offences on police-issued expiation notices updated?

SAPOL releases it monthly. This site checks the portal every week and adds a dated version when the file changes.

Can I use Traffic and other offences on police-issued expiation notices commercially?

Yes. CC BY 4.0 allows commercial use, redistribution and derived works as long as the attribution is kept. The attribution string is in this page's side column and inside every file.

Is this the official source for Traffic and other offences on police-issued expiation notices?

No. The publisher is South Australia Police, and its page is https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/expiation-notice-system-data. This site republishes the publisher's file without changing its content. The original sits beside every version as source.zip with its SHA-256, so the two can be compared.

How do I get only the rows for one notice type?

Every version has one JSON file per value of notice_type, 2 files in the current version, listed with row counts at https://publicdata.au/d/sa-police-expiation-offences/v/2026-09-28/by/notice_type/index.json. For example https://publicdata.au/d/sa-police-expiation-offences/v/2026-09-28/by/notice_type/caution-only.json holds the 13,669 rows where notice_type is CAUTION ONLY.

What this site did to the data. Cells were typed, headers were renamed and the encoding was made UTF-8. Rows were left alone. The publisher's file sits beside every version as source.zip so the change can be checked.

Expiation notices, South Australia Police is 4 tables here, and each takes its version date from its own file.

Attribution and citation

The licence requires the publisher's attribution. We ask that you also name publicdata.au and link to the version you used.

South Australia Police, Government of South Australia, Expiation Notice System Data, https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/expiation-notice-system-data, accessed 3 October 2026, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/sa-police-expiation-offences/v/2026-09-28/

The attribution alone is inside every file. Harvard is the author-date form a report or a brief asks for. Paste the HTML on a web page so the links carry.

Licence record

South Australia Police states the licence, CC BY 4.0, on its own page, which was read and recorded here on 1 October 2026.

Every fetch reads the licence again and stops when it has changed. The fetch that made version 2026-09-28 read it from data.sa.gov.au on 3 October 2026.

Also published on

Hugging Faceload_dataset("National-Digital/sa-police-expiation-offences")
Kagglewith a starter notebook
ZenodoDOI 10.5281/zenodo.23116463

Each copy carries the same attribution and links back to this page.

For agents and tools

datapackage.jsonFrictionless data package pointing at the latest version
schema.jsonTable Schema for every field
schema.xlsxthe same field list as an Excel data dictionary
versions.jsonevery version with date, rows, fields and hash
changes.jsondiff for every consecutive pair
manifest.jsonwhere the bytes came from and when
Query APIfiltered rows and counts without a download
openapi.jsonOpenAPI 3.1 for this dataset's query paths
explore/charts and dashboards in the browser, shareable and embeddable
index.mdthis page as Markdown

This page carries a schema.org Dataset record and is listed in /.well-known/ard.json and /catalog.json.

Source

South Australia Police publishes this table on data.sa.gov.au. Questions about the content go to the publisher. Questions about the files here go to corrections.

Fetched 3 October 2026. Source SHA-256 6911578b0dce1a56…

Improve this dataset

This page is built from register/sa-police-expiation-offences.yaml on GitHub. Anyone can propose a fix to it, such as a clearer description or a field the publisher renamed, as a pull request.

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