Agency undercuts police with illegal tickets
Agency undercuts police with illegal tickets
JAKARTA (JP): The City Traffic and Land Transportation Control
Agency (DLLAJ) has issued illegal tickets to fine traffic
violators, reliable police sources disclosed Wednesday.
Showing a copy of the fake, white tickets, a police source,
who asked not to be identified, said the tickets have been used
to fine traffic violators in East and West Jakarta.
By law only police have the authority to issue tickets for
traffic offenders.
Another police source, who also asked to remain anonymous,
said a number of traffic violators in South Jakarta have also
been ticketed by local DLLAJ officers using the bogus tickets.
The sources alleged that the tickets were approved by the
heads of the respective DLLAJ local offices.
After being ticketed by DLLAJ officers, violators were
required to come to court to pay the fines, the sources said.
According to the existing law, DLLAJ officers are only allowed
to identify violators and hand over their information to police,
who will then issue legal, red-colored tickets. Later, the
violators have to go to a bank appointed by the police to pay the
fine or appear in court before getting back their documents or
vehicles which are detained.
The sources said that officials in charge at the appointed
bank have refused to receive payments of the illegal, white-
tickets.
Courts
There was no confirmation from city courts whether they had
received payments from violators ticketed by the DLLAJ officers
in question.
The sources only said that some of the courts have already
summoned traffic violators fined by the DLLAJ officers who used
the bogus tickets.
The sources said that the head of Jakarta's DLLAJ office, JP
Sepang, had been informed of the ongoing scam.
The fake tickets displayed by the police source were issued by
the East Jakarta DLLAJ office, located on Jl. Taman Jatibung. The
tickets were approved by the head of the office, Abdul Halim. A
total of 20 types of traffic violations are written on the back
of each ticket.
The ticket, bearing the issuance number of 00177, charged
Janudin D. Carban, a driver of a M-26 Mikrolet public vehicle,
with failing to wear a uniform while driving the car early last
month. It was also written on the fake ticket that Janudin, a
resident of Kampung Tambun, Bintaro Jaya, Bekasi, was required to
appear at the East Jakarta court on May 14.
Under a new traffic law, fines for minor traffic violations
range from Rp 5,000 (US$2.30) up to Rp 60.000 ($27.90).(bsr)