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Dodging summons and traffic offences? Watch out for the Automated Number Plate Recognition this August
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20 May: Ops Warta is a traffic arrest program initiated on 19 May to arrest 1.59 million offenders that have not paid their summonses since 2014. It also hopes to encourage them to settle their fines before being charged in court.
Traffic police conducting a road block during Ops Warta in Alor Setar, Kedah.
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More than 50 officers are involved in the nationwide operation, which will continue until ALL summonses have been paid for before the year ends. The state with the most traffic offenders is Penang followed by Selangor and Malacca according to federal traffic police chief Datuk Mohd Fuad Abd Latiff.
A man was arrested by a police officer following the non-payment of summons during Ops Warta on traffic offenders at Jalan Tun Sambathan, Brickfields.
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On the first day of Ops Warta, 251 people have been arrested while 239 have registered themselves at police stations on 19 May. However, only 3% of the 1.59 million summonses have been accounted for.
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Since the operation, a sudden increase of traffic offenders have come to settle their summonses. Nonetheless, there are some who have taken extreme measures to prevent them from being arrested at work, such as taking leave and lying about their attendance.
An overwhelming number of traffic offenders have been turning up to pay their summons.
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