The Police Traffic Department, Bicycle Unit, and Central Police Station conducted a joint operation on Friday in Castries, during which officers issued 88 traffic tickets for various offences.
The officers stopped 160 vehicles and impounded one of them.
Friday’s joint operation occurred amid an alarming upsurge in road incidents, including collisions involving vehicles, motorcycles, and pedestrians.
There have also been several incidents involving vehicles overturning after drivers lost control.
They have occurred despite road safety appeals from the police, the Saint Lucia Fire Service, and others.
Saint Lucia has so far recorded sixteen road deaths for 2024, the latest involving a hit-and-run incident on the Mon Repos Highway on Friday that claimed the life of a Dennery man in his twenties.
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This needs to be done every day. Too much disorder and lawlessness in this country. Vehicles parking on sidewalks. Pedestrians forced to walk in the road. Pure madness in this place.
Did they give tickets to the police vehicles parked along Bridge St? Just wondering.
@Wondering…very good question. Did they also give tickets to their own officers driving vehicles either uninsured or not registered? Charity should always start at home so RSLPF do y’all job properly. Your officers are citizens too. The same ones enforcing the law are breaking it themselves. Smfh in this clown country.
Enforcement is selective. Look at by the airport, people park under the No Parking signs. Just remove the signs. How can we instruct our kids if lawlessness is so accepted and there is no enforcement. But let law abiding citizens step out of line and pleasi police to jump all over you.
So more than half of the vehicles stopped were ticketed, that says alot.
A guy got away with a stolen vehicle because he told the police it was his cousin’s vehicle. The insurance papers in the vehicle were valid and the driver’s license was up to date. The police must learn to ask for the phone number of the name on the insurance papers when the driver’s documents do not match the insurance documents. Stolen vehicles usually have valid insurance papers that do not belong to the the driver.