Something for the Police Force to consider

Jun 23, 2015 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
I was driving along the famous Number Nineteen Road around 10:00 hours on Sunday 21st June 2015. Along my way I was given signals by the oncoming traffic that police were on the road, so I looked at my speedometer and I was doing around seventy-five to seventy eight kilometres to the hour. I maintained my speed and I began to show my brother who was with me at the time, where the police normally hide out to catch speeding drivers.
About one hundred feet away from where the police were hiding, I saw one of the officers walking towards the centre of the road. I looked at my speedometer again and I was below the eighty-kilometre speed limit, and I proceeded.
The officer (name provided) stopped me, so I was of the opinion that he wanted to carry out a routine check. I pulled over and the officer (attached to the New Amsterdam Police Station) came to me with the speed gun telling me that I was doing eighty-six kilometres in an eighty zone.
I immediately told him that is wrong; that I was doing less than eighty kilometres and there was no way I could be doing eighty-six kilometres. He then told me to step out the vehicle and bring along my licence. I complied and proceeded to a police car that was parked under a tree where there was another officer.
The officer (name provided) under the tree reading the daily newspaper on the police car with licence plate PSS 4458, immediately told me “boss-man if you know you are wrong you should have apologize to the police and talk to us properly” – his exact words.
I then told him do what they have to do and I will explain the situation to the court. He wrote a speeding ticket with all information and told me I have until the Thursday 9th July to pay it or appear in court. I then asked the officer to show me the time on the speed gun when he used it on me and caught me doing eighty-six kilometres and let him put the gun to zero so I can know if it is properly calibrated, they both refused.
I have traversed that route each working day of the week for the past three years, and I know all the hiding spots and the normal spots they will usually be to catch speeding drivers. Therefore there is a natural tendency for me to look at my speedometer when I am approaching those areas.
I am a law-abiding citizen of this beautiful land and I think our police force needs to be more efficient and have proper equipment to carry out their duties in a correct manner and be fair to citizens who are wrongfully penalized for an offence they did not commit.
I am sure that I could have dealt with the situation differently, but to know I was not guilty, I am allowing the court to hear my plea and make a judgment.
J. Narayan

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