Better Traffic Policing Needed In Jamaica

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Letter to the Jamaica Gleaner editor – Tuesday, June 9, 2009
From: Peter Piper in Kingston
Re: The need for better traffic policing in Jamaica

Dear Editor,

The chairman of the Special Constables Force Association, Special Sergeant St George Jackson, is reported in The Gleaner of June 6 as having called on the authorities to end the evaluation of traffic police officers based on the number of traffic tickets they issue.

Thank you, Special Sergeant Jackson, for making that call at your association’s annual conference. This confirms what many have long suspected: that the traffic police issue speeding tickets in high volumes both to impress their superiors, and to raise money for the Government. This practice is aided and abetted, in my opinion, by many inappropriately low speed limits set by other departments of government … more

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