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In photos: Plainclothes policemen nab errant drivers

 

The Traffic Police say covert operations are part of their enforcement strategy to improve road safety.

Pearly Tan

 

Sat, Mar 24, 2012

The New Paper

 

If you are driving and notice two young men standing by the roadside with a camcorder on a tripod, you might mistake them for tertiary students working on a film project.

 

They're actually Traffic Police officers and you are their "project".

 

Because if you are filmed using your mobile phone while driving, or beating a red light, that footage will be used as evidence to penalise you.

 

On Wednesday morning, from 6am to 8am, The New Paper went on a covert two-hour operation with the Traffic Police to catch errant drivers along Teck Whye Crescent in the Choa Chu Kang area.

 

The area is the site of five educational institutes, including De La Salle School and Pioneer Junior College, and is known as a school zone.

 

A Traffic Police spokesman told TNP that residents had told them there had been traffic congestion problems in the mornings when students were dropped off at school.

 

Drivers are not allowed to make right turns from Teck Whye Crescent to Teck Whye Avenue between 6.30am and 7.30am when traffic is heaviest as students make their way to school.

 

To warn drivers, four signboards were put up. But some drivers continue to ignore them.

 

TNP observed at least five vehicles making illegal right turns before 7.30am.

 

Two male plainclothes police officers, who stood by the roadside with a camcorder on a tripod, caught the offenders on tape.

 

Other vehicles, including taxis and a private bus, were also seen stopping at the red light.

 

But after waiting for some time, they reversed and turned left instead.

 

Traffic Police officers said these drivers would be given the benefit of the doubt and would not be issued a summons.

 

ANOTHER OPERATION

 

In another covert operation on Wednesday, a man was issued a summons for talking on his mobile phone while driving along Sims Avenue near Geylang Lorong 1.

 

According to statistics from the Traffic Police, 915 summons were issued to road traffic offenders between mid-October last year and February this year.

 

Of these, about half were for careless driving, use of mobile phone while driving, beating the red light, failure to wear seat belts and making unlawful U-turns.

 

The other offences included driving or riding on the road shoulder, driving without a licence and failure to obey directional signs.

 

A Traffic Police spokesman said since last October, covert operations were part of their enforcement strategy.

 

The main purpose is to improve road safety for everyone by targeting irresponsible motorists.

 

[Darthrevan]

very good..the public feedbacks are finally seeing light..thumbs up for more enforcement to weed out errant motorists

[Hamburger]

cant catch crooks so catch chicken.............

[Mecontle]

peeping tom , give him a elbow from back , red car will buy u kopi

[TMR11]

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Edited March 24, 2012 by TMR11