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Traffic police, road users play game of cat and mouse
For many road users, traffic police officers are a bugbear they would rather avoid, regardless of whether they have violated any traffic rules or whether all their license and vehicle documents are on hand.
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A traffic police officer writes a ticket for a car driver who violated the odd-even license plate traffic regulation in Tomang, West Jakarta, on Monday, Sept. 9. (JP/Narabeto Korohama)
Earlier this month, a video of police officer Chief Brig. Eka Setiawan holding onto the windshield of a moving car as the driver attempted to flee from being ticketed was circulated on social media.
On one of the posts, uploaded by Instagram account @jktinfo, which reposted the video recorded by @imam_mirhan, the caption reads, “On Monday, a police officer was seen holding onto the windshield of a car in Pasar Minggu, South Jakarta.”
The incident occurred on Sept. 16 at around 2:30 p.m. during an operation on Jl. Pasar Minggu Raya for which Eka and several officers of the South Jakarta Transportation Agency were deployed.
The video shows a glimpse of the struggle faced by the city’s traffic corps, which commemorated its 64th anniversary on Sunday.
For many road users, traffic police officers are a bugbear they would rather avoid, regardless of whether they have violated any traffic rules or whether all their license and vehicle documents are on hand.
Regular motorcyclist Galang Ari said he was used to playing cat-and-mouse with traffic police officers even though he said he did not intentionally violate any road rules.
“I think most motorcyclists do,” he said on Sunday.
