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Law enforcement officers will soon be able to enforce traffic laws, issue tickets

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October 7th, 2015 (ICR News) Law enforcement officers will soon be able to enforce traffic laws and issue tickets, under an agreement between the Ministry of Public Security (MSP) and the Ministry of Public Works and Transport (MOPT) that is expected to be signed soon, according to La Nacion.

 

Currently, the power to enforce traffic laws and issue traffic citations rests only with officers of the Transit Police (Policia de Transito).

 

The measure comes as the result of a serious shortfall in the number of transit officers in the country, according to officials.

 

There are currently only 763 transit officers to patrol the country’s some 47,000 kilometers of roadways, according to officials.

 

Officials said that the first goal is to train 1,000 law enforcement officers in traffic enforcement, with the ultimate goal of training all 14,000 of the country’s law enforcement officers.

 

The ministries are hoping to sign the agreement in the coming days.

 

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  • Michael C

    Excellent news! The government could realize an enormous influx of revenues, and the driving public would be markedly safer, if Fuerza Publica would take an active role, in vehicles, bicycles and on foot, in traffic enforcement! Adelante!

    • Jim Krueger

      You are an idiot!

  • Fernando Gerdano

    Terrible news. Just giving more power to a poorly trained very corrupt police force. They will now pull you over and threaten you with a big fine for something you didn’t do (driving while gringo o extranjero) unless you give them $$$$. Time to hire a driver.

    • duke ster

      Man o man ain’t that the truth.They used to just look for me and other Gringos so they could shake me down.They would flag me over every time they saw me and search my papers until they found some stupid something. One time I told the cop that I was sick and tired of the shake downs and told him to give me the ticket–he was really surprised and kept telling me how much it would cost–I said just give me the ticket. I gave the ticket to my lawyer and never heard about it again.
      But they were shaking down Gringos in my town and taking the license plates. The Gringos took the complaints to OIJ and the cops were caught. I saw the cops out there working traffic the next week like nothing had changed but they weren’t taking any more plates.

  • Fernando

    Everyone is always saying how bad the drivers are. Give them tickets, hit them in the pockets, works everywhere else. Just saying, you want better drivers on the road, you have to make the violators pay or they will continue to drive like they have a free pass…..

    • Fernando

      Almost the worst drivers in the world, they need tightening up???

    • zzzzz

      fast drivers are not necessarily bad drivers. It is the stupid who are the problem and apparently they don’t give tickets for that…

  • Chris Thomas

    Finally the CR government finally gets it, after 200 years that the civilized world is doing it they finally catch up is always like that in CR corrupt stuborn and slow.

  • Disgruntled

    Great, now we will have all the police working the highways for easy money for themselves and the government and they become the thieves instead of trying to catch and arrest them.

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