The Zambia Police Service plans to introduce payment for traffic offences directly to the bank.
Inspector General of Police Martin Malama says there is need to re-look the current mode of payment, which he says is inconveniencing for the travelling public.
Dr. Malama says his officers and the Road Transport and Safety Agency-RTSA will soon be brainstorming on how best to go about it.
He was speaking to Journalists in Lusaka on Tuesday.
And Dr. Malama says he is happy with the promotion of six senior police women as provincial commissioners.
President Michael Sata has promoted ten commissioners, six of whom are women.
Dr. Malama says the police command is confident that the six will work according to expectations and encourage other female officers in the rank and file of the police service to work hard.
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The police may probably resolve inconvenience as for “kick backs” I doubt they’d be able to resolve those.
May i begin by offering my apreciation to the IG. Dr. Malama.
If we all recall during the campaigns our Presido at some platform and consistently expressed that the traffic offence charges were tool high and he gave a situation whereby when PF forms Government they will revisit the charges and reduce them drastically to as low as K20 , 000 per traffic offence and pitting up a proper system which our Boss the IG is now talking about. this system has the following benefits
– No person on a jouney wold be inconvinience as you will be given apple time to pay
– Since the individual offences charges would be low hence removal of corruption which has been always being initiated by both parties.
– Government would increase revenue collection hence managing to fund our budget
i can go on and on in short this ba Doctor Malama mwalasa. Even the short time you worked on the CB things changed. May God bless you.
I hope this won’t be extended to the famous foreign national in Luanshya who made young girls sleep with Dogs. He only deserves a life imprisonment sentence in our prisons with no chance for pardon. Not the first time a foreign burger is coming to Zambia with this scheme of soiling our Zed girls with Dog semen.
you guys are asking for too much…first you penalise a motorist which is upsetting enough then you ask him to go stand in a long que in a bank to deposit money that will most likely be abused!!!
K180,000 for overspeeding and cop asks you for K100,000. Let them give traffic tickets on the spot and allow you to pay within a month. Failure to which you should appear in court.
Actually the existing law requires you to pay within 14 days. However, a lot of ordinary citizens are not aware of this, and so are taken advantage of by the cops on the roads.
It is true not all motorists have money to pay there and then. the question to ask is at what point do kick backs occur and why. Certainly lining up in the bank would be the worst of all. find a better way…
How i wish we had an effective internet banking system in Zambia.It could have made things easier, but things being the way they are i wonder if this will work out.
this does not solve that problem. infact it increases it. who would want to go stand in a queue? better still just give the chap a fifty pin. the best is to reduce the fines to realistic amounts where you are better off paying the fifty pin for the offence and get a receipt then give the cops fifty pin for their pockets. these chaps just use state machinery like the speed traps, for personal gain
chanda chimbwi ka?
@Uncanny,just move with enough cash on you then to avoid queing up in the bank.
The best ever is to check that you car is roadworth before you drive off and pliz never over speed.You know if Police officer sanagwire bantu it means sanasebenze that day.So obey all the rules and regulations of the road.
You ask someone to pay a penalty of K180,000 and yet you know that that there are many who get that amount as a salary at the end of month. Is it just me or does this seem hypocritical? How do you expect the masses to afford that when they have a family to feed? No wonder there is corruption. Your penalty fees are too high, wages and salaries are too low. Yet, you want the Police and RTSA to make money off the very motorists you underpay. Besides even this motive of making money off motorists is wrong. The Police should be on the roads to make sure everyone is driving in an orderly manner and that there is law and order among citizens instead of looking for money from motorists. For those of you in the disapora, do you see cops hunting for money in the streets?? Their income is a responsibility of the government. However, if someone disobeys traffic regulation, they will be fined.
If your Salary is 180pin; I dont expect you toown and manage a vehicle else you be charged with possessing assets disproportionate to your income in the first count and failing to account for properties in the second account. if you in that social strata then you are certainly exempted from any traffic offence as you can never own or drive a vehicle.
Fasten your seat belt, adhere to speed limits, don’t beat traffic lights, don’t drink and drive, make sure your car has a valid road licence and certificate of fitness. I have followed these basic rules and I have never been charged with a traffic offence.
tel them bakoswe
Dr Malama should be suported on this one. If you make traffic offences cheaper than they currently are then the incentive of payng a Cop is removed. i.e make the traffic offence ticket ten pin. However, this will encourage reckless drivers to break all rules and in some cases cause fatalities. We now have to strike a balance. introduce traffic tickets and strait away impounding for repeat offenders. make the traffic offence charge dependant on the number of offences. This will require a Data base of motor vehicles and Solar power pay point systems where you can just swipe. RATSA already has a data base and all that is required is a mechanism. way to go Malama. iam not PF but onthis iam with you and the gorvernment so please dont disapoint me.
FIRST AND FOREMOST THE PENALTY FEES THEMSELVES ARE JUST TOO HIGH NO WONDER POLICEMEN HAVE BUILT HO– USES FROM KICK BACKS. SO THE SOLUTION WOULD BE RTSA TO REDUCE THE PENALTY FEES FIRST, THEN POLICE SHOULD GIVE TICKETS AND FINALLY OFFENDERS SHOULD BE PAYING USING THE NEW MOBILE MONEY TRANSFER LIKE AIR MONEY SIMPLE, NO BANK QUEUES.
then be careful wen drivin ok?
Dr. Malama has done well on this one in fact it should be brought to a whole number which is K200,000. We have lost our beloved ones cos of these same people who does no respect traffic rules. Why over speeding risking your life and other road users they must be law and order in the nation, if you do not want to pay K200,000 follow the laid up rules.
ba fikala avoid nosense on the road.infact let them increase by 100%.after all bambi mwashimafye.
Queing in the Bank is part of the punidhment, so that you are careful on the road.
good obsarvation
Solution is reduce penalties so people can afford. Current levels attract corruption. Answering your mobile attracts a penalty of K270,000…!! who has that kind of money on spot?? Only civil servants in these ministries who build bangalores in Chalala can have that kind of money on the spot. Rest of us are happy to part away with a 30 pin direct into cops pocket.
The only way to avoid police from getting kick backs is to reduce your official charges. Some offences go for k250,000 as official charge, when you junior is just asking for k50,000 to 100,000. Which one do you go for???
Some offences should not even be tolerated – I have heard of minibus drivers boasting that even if they killed people at the pedestrian crossing, they would just pay K150,000 and that’s it. Such offences should carry life imprisonment (that is if the black and white lines are visible).
I can see we all share the same problems for as long as u drive,charges are too much,police need retraining on their role on the road they are not there to upset,or complicate drivers life therefore its only prudent that we act like it is the UK ,America create more pay points for traffic offences like we are having a ATMs now not exchange of money driver to policeman that shud come to un end with immediate effect.
No, Dr Malama is supposed to be talking about Cameras on our Roads other than road blocks.The number of check-points should be reduced, e.g, when going to the CB the check point at Kabangwe should scan each and every vehicle interms of fitness, road tax, Driver license,drivers breath to check if he has alcohol, bombs, and the load someone is carrying. This information should be passed on to the Cops who man the Chisamba Check Point, to say, there is such & such a vehicle carying such & such things, please make sure nothing more is carried. Meanwhile inbetween Kabangwe & Chisamba, we should have Cameras planted secretely so that those who are speeding, the information will be extracted later at the Station and the owners of the vehicles will be called and fined at the Station. The next check point should be as you enter Kabwe and also between Kapiri and Kabwe. If the Police Command want, those Policemen will speed trap cameras can be mobile, but they should not stop any driver but send a radio message to the next Police Check point to say such..such a driver with such a vehicle is driving dangerously.At those Check points, we should have ACC Officers, DEC and RTSA as well as the Police, this will reduce corruption.
Good Move Dr Malama. Thats how developed countries raise their revenues. The money should be put through road repairs
all of u who coment on tumfweko mwalitumpa sana, u just post insults on this medium. am very much upset with all of u ba sichopeti!!
my best regards.
Tickets for trafic offences will be the best. Like they do it in SA. No time waisting, they give u a ticket, u have time to find the money & u pay within a month. If u fail to do that then u r taken to court.
First u give us low salaries,then u give us access to money wat do u expect from me. Uzanidyesela bana chikala tombanoko
Bwana agomole kuti adye bwino nabana bake
Let the police use POS machines. They are battery operated and access is via GPRS/3G on the mobile providers. You get your receipt there and then too.Problem solved!!
So now road blocks are back. Coz in ndola we have police officers malting road blocks any how. Especially in ndeke, itawa and at jacaranda mall in ndola.
good idea…!
Dr. Malama doesn’t have the system available for implementation. Guys help him design a system that can help curb kick back and inconveniences.
For worthwhile suggestions please contact me.
TUMFWEKO, screen these comments for insults and vulgar, not all of us are from the street to read rubbish.
when you commit an offence,you must be punished therefore take queing up in a bank as part of punishment espicially if the offence charges are reduced.
NO WONDER THAT COP (TRAFFIC OFFICER NASILELE) IS EVER AT CHINGOLA/CHILILABOMBWE KAFUE BRIDGE WITH HIS SPEED TRAP EVERY DAY FOR PERSONAL GAIN.THIS COPS ARE VERY CORRUPT I EVEN WONDER WHY THEY DON’T ROTATE THIS CHINGOLA TEAM,HOW CAN A POLICE OFFICE BE STATIONED AT THE SAME ROAD BLOCK FOR TWO YEAR(SOLWEZI TURN OFF)
TRAFFIC OFFENSES HAVE FATAL CONSEQUENCES, HIGHER FINES AND A LOT OF CONVENIENCES ARE PARTY OF THE PUNISHMENT THAT SHOULD DETER LAW BREAKERS. MALAMA SHOULD BE CAREFUL OR HE MIGHT INCREASE LAWLESSNESS IN HIS UNCHECKED EFFORTS TO APPEASE HIS MASTERS. THERE IS NO NEED TO MAKE THINGS EASY FOR OFFENDERS.
Now this one is a nut cracker alright. The traffic cop is a proper Bwana. He eats well, dresses well, has a minibus of his own. Kongoleshaa the boss when times are tough. So we are going to make him ask us to pay direct to the bank. No sweat. He is going to make us pay as you you go. He is going to ask us to pay big and reduce the offence. That way GRZ gets a small ammount and he gets the big cut.
In Georgia, young men pay up to USD 500 to get a job as a traffic cop. They are paid USD 50 per month but they pay an allowance to the traffic boss USD 100 per week. The most ruthless punishment for a traffic cop is removal of the Honda.
Now let us think again.