Police: 341 Traffic Tickets Issued In 2 Weeks
Police have issued 341 moving violation tickets in the last two weeks as part of Operation Vega, with 4,893 tickets issued since the deployment of the operation six months ago.
A police spokesperson said, “As Operation Vega continues, 341 moving violation tickets were issued over the last two weeks. That’s 12 fewer than the 353 issued during the previous two weeks.”
Chief Inspector Robert Cardwell of the Bermuda Police Service Tactical Support Unit said, “Operation Vega remains a critical incident. We will continue to lawfully perform our duty to calm and slow things down on the roads with effective enforcement.
“Since the deployment of Operation Vega six months ago, 4,893 moving violation tickets have been issued. Motorists were ticketed for speeds ranging from 55KMPH to 102KMPH.
“The target offences continue to be:
- Driving without due care and attention
- Helmet offence – not fastened
- Disobeying a traffic sign
- Cell phone offence
- Speeding
- Unlicensed and uninsured vehicle
- Failure to fasten seatbelt
- Driving without reasonable consideration [failure to use indicators]
“Please be aware that not using an indicator does not create an absolute offence. The failure to use an indicator must cause someone else to do or not to do something and this must be included in the evidence. An example might be a driver failed to use an indicator which caused a vehicle at the same junction not to move on.”
I applaud the Bermuda Police Service for their gargantuan efforts. Thanks.
Now, for the follow up, to get these people in the courts, and make them pay the penalties.
Hopefully, hefty fines for the government coffers for the time and effort spent trying to ‘teach these people a lesson, or two”.
When they appear in court, they should be warned to bring their credit card and, or, cheque book to pay the fines before they leave the court room.
Otherwise, someone will have to go chasing after these scoundrels, the funds are unlikely to ever be collected, and hence, no penalty paid by the offenders.
Right?
I hope they don’t get away with it, please, your honours, judges of the courts
Thanks to you as well.
Sorry, Newton. We were lucky that the Acting Commissioner of Police could find a spare officer to issue the tickets. The chances of finding multiple spare officers to “go chasing after these scoundrels” is somewhere between slim and none.
I believe that we need some inspired new approaches to this and many other policies and practices in Bermuda if we want to do more than just continue to go around in circles. Consequences need to be meaningful and enforceable and need to inspire change in the offender. Simply chasing speeders only every now and then and giving advance notice to drunk drivers so they can avoid the stop-points and then only imposing fines that we know will not be collected will just further diminish the respect for the authority of law that is so prevalent these days.