Adj. Comr. Ryke Rhimadhila of the traffic division of Semarang Police in Central Java said it was possible that vehicles caught on CCTV cameras were rental cars or had been sold by their owners who had not yet transferred ownership of their vehicles. 

In applying the e-traffic ticket system, he said, the Semarang Police together with the Transportation Agency as the CCTV operator would visit people whose addresses matched the police’s data on the plate number of the vehicles caught on camera committing the traffic offenses.  

“We will examine thoroughly whether it is the owner of the vehicle that has committed the traffic offense,” said Ryke, as he visited the residence of a suspected traffic violator in Jomblang, Candisari, Semarang, on Friday.

He added that the police would bring the video footage of the suspected traffic violator during the confirmation process. If the police found the vehicle was driven by someone else when the traffic violation occurred, they would trace the perpetrator and sanction him or her. Such an examination process also would be applied to rented cars.

Ryke called on people who had sold their vehicles to immediately transfer ownership of the vehicles. The police would apply e-traffic ticket fines in line with the 2009 Traffic Law. (ebf)

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