Police seize music equipment from minibuses

Jun 11, 2009 News

“…once you intend to breach the law we’re going to do what the law requires,”– traffic officer.

Despite repeated warnings some minibus operators are bent on amplifying their musical equipment much to the annoyance of the police traffic department and members of the traveling public.
But this time around, the police are not letting up and have intensified their campaign to force the operators to comply.
Within the past week several minibuses have been pulled in and not only have their certificate of fitness and road service licence been suspended, but their extra musical equipment have been confiscated.
Traffic officer of the police ‘A’ Division, Deputy Superintendent John Daniels, in an exclusive interview with this newspaper, said that his department launched a campaign about a week ago and already amplified musical equipment have been removed from about 40 minibuses.
Among the equipment seized are speakers, amplifiers, tweeters, CDs, DVDs and DVD players.
“We have taken back the road service licence, which we would normally issue when the bus is roadworthy, and the certificate of fitness. When they would have returned and have the bus go back to the original feature, we will then re-issue them with the road service licence and re-examine the bus for the fitness. Then we would give it back to them once they have complied with the requirements,” Deputy Superintendent Daniels said.
Yesterday the traffic officer personally supervised the examination of several vehicles that were pulled in. He ordered a number of operators to remove the prohibited equipment.
Recently, the police traffic department took a strong stance against amplified music in public transportation, only allowing these vehicles to operate with the original equipment that it is fitted with.
“Once you would have had added features to the music system in the vehicle…it means therefore you intend to breach the law and once you intend to breach the law we’re going to do what the law requires,” Daniels said.
He said that since the new regulations against amplified music were enacted, a number of bus operators wisely put themselves in order.
However, after obtaining their road service licences and certificates of fitness, the operators reverted to their old habit of breaching the law.
“From now on, we will make records of who are the regular offenders. Once there are repeat offenders, there is a certain action the police force is going to take.”
Yesterday, several bus operators complied with the action taken by the police but they expressed the hope that the action will not be discriminatory.
“What goes fuh we must go fuh all buses in the country. They got to do the same to the buses owned by policemen and their families,” one bus operator said.

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