🚨 If a UK Officer Says "I Saw You on Your Phone" — Say THIS (6 Points, or Your Whole Licence)

Get Make Them Pay here: https://knowrightsuk.gumroad.com/l/know-your-rights You are sitting at a red light. The phone buzzes in the cup holder and you pick it up for two seconds to see who it is. Half a mile later an officer at your window says six words: I saw you on your phone. Most people's first instinct is to say "I only checked the time." Since 2022, checking the time is written into the regulation as using it. That sentence is not a defence. It describes the offence. 📋 WHAT THIS VIDEO COVERS — Regulation 110 of the Construction and Use Regulations, and why the red light is not a defence — What "using" a phone means since 2022: illuminating the screen, checking the time, unlocking it — The narrow exemptions: 999 calls, contactless payment while stationary, remote parking — The cost: 6 points and £200, and up to £1,000 if it goes to court — Why 6 points ends the licence of anybody who passed in the last two years — The three lines to say at the window, and why an explanation makes it worse — "Unlock it and show me" — why being asked carries no legal duty — A section 49 RIPA notice, and why refusing that one is a crime — Whether they can take the phone, and the rule that never changes — Why a phone mount only protects you while the phone stays in it 🔎 SOURCES Regulation 110 of the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986, including 110(6)(c). The Government's guidance on using mobile phones when driving. Section 2 of the Road Traffic (New Drivers) Act 1995. Sections 49 and 53 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000. Sections 19 and 23 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984. Every section is on screen as I read it, from legislation.gov.uk. ⚠️ THE PART TO REMEMBER An officer asking you to unlock your phone and a section 49 notice sound identical. They are not. A section 49 notice needs permission in advance, has to be in writing, and gives you a period to comply. If you are ever handed one, do not refuse it — speak to a solicitor. Comply, never resist. Refuse consent, never a lawful order. If they take the phone, do not grab it back and never delete anything on it. FREE HELP FIRST. The duty solicitor at a police station costs you nothing, ever, at any hour. Always the free route before anybody paid. 📘 Make Them Pay — how a complaint about a police encounter is actually made, with five template letters and the parts you fill in marked in brackets: https://knowrightsuk.gumroad.com/l/know-your-rights England and Wales only — Scotland is different. This is general legal education about published regulations and sections of Acts, not advice about your stop, your phone or your licence. I am a solicitor but not your solicitor. Has this happened to you or somebody you know? Type the county, nothing else. #knowyourrights #ukdrivers #mobilephonelaw #ukLaw #roadtraffic