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Different approach to traffic policing - 'incentives'

Interior Minister Orders Strict Enforcement of New Traffic Law

Interior Minister Sar Kheng held a “solidarity dinner” with some 500 traffic police on Wednesday, ordering them to be strong in dealing with infringing motorists ahead of the implementation of the new Land Traffic Law, officials said Friday.....The Interior Ministry has also rolled out a schedule of fines for all traffic offenses, and has offered increased cash incentives for officers who go through the proper procedure of punishing and fining offenders.......“Our mobile police forces will check vehicles every day along national roads and the new pickup trucks will be used to chase vehicles that are speeding or whose driver is drunk,” he said.

Currently, all fines that are formally processed are split three ways: 20 percent goes to the Ministry of Finance, 50 percent goes to the officer and 30 percent goes back into traffic police coffers.

Come January, according to Ly Long, deputy chief of the National Police’s public order department, the split will change, with the officer taking 70 percent of all fines collected, the police force getting 25 percent and the ministry receiving 5 percent.

Monitoring traffic on a busy corner along Sihanouk Boulevard on Friday, a 29-year-old officer who asked not to be named predicted that the prospect of a promotion would be enough to encourage officers to formalize the punishment of offenders,....

D Trent

Capri wrote: »

Different approach to traffic policing - 'incentives'

For those of you wondering the country is Cambodia, in South East Asia

Capri

D Trent wrote: »

For those of you wondering the country is Cambodia, in South East Asia

Could apply to many 'third world' countries really. Gardai were there with the UN before.