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Motorists should not have to visit a station for a ticketable offence
DEAR EDITOR,
I was recently on the phone with a friend in Guyana, while talking with him, he was pulled over by the police, so we hung-up. Two hours later, he called me back and told me he was pulled over for running a red light and had to follow the police officer to Kitty Police Station where he was charged and put on $10k bail, but with a bribery of $5k, he was able to walk out of the station with no further action.
I don’t blame my friend for taking this option; the system in place makes no sense. Why not just issue a ticket and let the offender have the option to pay or go to court. I have never heard of this before, where just for a traffic violation you have to make a trip to the station to be charged like a criminal. This system will always encourage bribery and when an officer leaves his post to accompany a person to the station, he misses many opportunities to issue tickets to other traffic violators.
I’m sure that I’m not the first person to bring this up, but the government needs to change this rule. Maybe bringing this up in your newspaper will hopefully make some of the governing body do some thinking.
Roy Doobay
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