The Home Ministry will allocate RM30 million for its enforcement agency to develop an online payment system known as Traffic Cops.Its secretary-general Datuk Seri Mohamad Khalid Shariff said Traffic Cops was among the methods to be implemented by the ministry to solve the problem on unpaid summonses among foreign traffic offenders.
He said under the provision, the enforcement agency involved would also be equipped with plate number scanners or automated number plate recognition (ANPR) at all entry points to Malaysia.
"Through this system, we hope we can solve the issue of outstanding summonses involving foreign nationals, specifically Singaporeans, because at every entry point to Malaysia, foreign vehicles would be scanned by ANPR to know their traffic offences.
"This means, they must settle their summonses before leaving the country," he said during a Session with the Media: Series 3 of the Auditor-General's Report 2013 in Kuala Lumpur today.
Asked if there were cases of foreign nationals changing their car registration number before leaving Malaysia, Mohamad Khalid said such a scenario was beyond the ministry's ambit.
"The data on vehicle number ownership is under the relevant enforcement agency of the country from where the motorists originate.
"We cannot obtain the data arbitrarily, as such it is difficult to ascertain if the foreign nationals have changed their vehicle number," he said.
The Auditor-General's Report 2013, Series 3, which was released on Monday, states that 16.3 million summonses were issued by traffic police in 2011-2013 and of the total, 121,664 were issued to non-citizens.
The report said of the 121,664 summonses, only 12,713 were settled with RM7.63 million in fines collected. – Bernama
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