How does the police track people driving without a licence?

Rebecca,

I do not know what exactly what computer systems the police are using to track down people driving without licence. It's probably an inhouse system which connects to a database of known offenders, that is, people who have been driving with no licence in the past. They may be informed when a car's registration number matches for the people on the list and if they investigate whether the known offender was driving again and whether he still hasn't got a licence yet and sue accordingly. However most of the time, cars are stopped by the police and that's when they find out if you have a valid licence or not.

On a routine check by the police a check came back as "no record found" for my driving licence ! As all my other details checked out they gave me a producer for the licence. I of course produced my licence at the police station. What bothered me is that i have read online that some police treat the "no record found" as the driver has no licence period and impound the car and arrest the driver! So i contacted dvla and spoke to them,they told me they did indeed have my driving licence details on record and that the police do not directly use theirs but use an independant database. I think this is poor as in my case it could have been guilty until proven innocent ! I wonder if this database will get updated for myself after i produced my licence ? I am not holding my breath !