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Traffic ranks strip tint from 18 police vehicles

Aug 16, 2017 News

 “If we are taking tint off civilian vehicles, then equally police ranks (who are unauthorized) should take theirs off as well…” -Traffic Chief

 

What’s unlawful for the civilian is also unlawful for the cop.

That’s the message that Traffic Chief Dion Moore seems to be sending out to ranks who have tinted vehicle windows when they are not unauthorised to do so.

Yesterday, 18 junior ranks were caught in a city crackdown and had their private vehicles stripped of the unauthorised tint.

Traffic Chief Moore said that three of the vehicles were at Police Headquarters, Eve Leary.

“If we are taking tint off civilian vehicles, then equally police ranks (who are unauthorized) should take theirs off as well,” Moore told Kaieteur News.

Aside from private police vehicles, he revealed that his ranks will also be targeting police patrol vehicles that are tinted. But he explained that some vehicles that are conducting intelligence work are exempt from the crackdown.

Moore revealed that the campaign is a countrywide one, and Divisional Heads will be authorized to check on police vehicles in their districts.

The campaign comes in the wake of concerns by civilians about the prevalence of police ranks driving private vehicles with tinted windows.

In a recent letter to the Kaieteur News, a civilian who was charged for having tinted windows, queried if police officers’ privately-owned vehicles are exempted from this tint removal exercise.

“Are family members and close friends of police officers exempted as well? Do these officers have tint permit for their privately owned vehicles? Why is it that we cannot see into their cars from whatever angle we stand? Why are they allowed 5% tint or any percentage of tints on the glass of all four doors, as well as the back and front windscreens? I know this current exercise is to assist in identifying criminals so my question is; are the police and their family members and close friends hiding the criminals in their darkly tinted cars?”

Another civilian also in a letter to the media, said that he was arrested and taken to a station having an illegally tinted vehicle.

The civilian alleged that the arresting officer “has a red car which is heavily tinted and has his name on it, and it was parked at the station at the time. Nevertheless, he wanted to charge us for breaking the law. I asked him to whom the red car belonged, to which he replied that he didn’t know and didn’t care!

As it seemed we were getting nowhere I decided to remove my tint and hand it to him, and I was charged for doing the very same thing he is doing without consequences. I left him and his friends sitting under a shed chatting, and as I looked around this station I saw several tinted vehicles owned by police officers.”

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