The Mother City's fake traffic cops
By Tarryn Le Chat
25 November 2006
The City has launched an urgent probe into the issuesing of hundreds of invalid traffic fines by former beach constanbles who now work for the Metro Police.
Scores of these municipal law enforcement officers apparently do not have the authority to issue fines for moving violations yet they have done so since last year.
Thousands of invalid fines had to be written off by the city. In the latest fiasco a group of former municipal law enforcements officers who had been transferred from municipalities to metro police.
Asked why the officers who had done conversion courses had not been appointed under the Road and Traffic act and sworn in as traffic officers as a matter of course, Metro Police spokesperson Kevin Maxwell, explained that there was still uncertainty about the future structure of the Metro Police.
25 November 2006
The City has launched an urgent probe into the issuesing of hundreds of invalid traffic fines by former beach constanbles who now work for the Metro Police.
Scores of these municipal law enforcement officers apparently do not have the authority to issue fines for moving violations yet they have done so since last year.
Thousands of invalid fines had to be written off by the city. In the latest fiasco a group of former municipal law enforcements officers who had been transferred from municipalities to metro police.
Asked why the officers who had done conversion courses had not been appointed under the Road and Traffic act and sworn in as traffic officers as a matter of course, Metro Police spokesperson Kevin Maxwell, explained that there was still uncertainty about the future structure of the Metro Police.
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