JUST 17 out of more than 16,000 incidents of fly-tipping in the Bradford district in a year resulted in fixed penalty fines, a study has found. A total of 16,128 incidents of people dumping items in the district were recorded in the 2019-20 financial year, but only 17 of them saw fixed penalty notices (FPN) were handed out, a total of 0.11 per cent of cases. Meanwhile, Bradford Council issued 2,198 warning letters to people over fly-tipping during this same 12-month period, as 13.63 per cent of incidents resulted in warning letters. These statistics ranked Bradford as the 13th worst area in England for fly-tipping during this period.