Despite recent reports that all backlogged and outstanding Automated Enforcement System (AES) summonses may be scrapped, transport minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai has said that all those who have been caught and fined by the system are still required to pay up.
It was reported just weeks ago that the government would be scrapping all existing AES-related fines prior to rolling out the second phase of the AES traffic monitoring system, which will introduce some 350 enforcement cameras throughout the nation by the first quarter of 2016.
But as reported by the SunDaily, Liow, who was speaking to members of the media at a ground-breaking ceremony for the construction of a new high-school in Ipoh, confirmed that while a decision is yet to be made by the Cabinet, all 14 AES cameras nationwide are still active, and Malaysian traffic offenders must settle their existing fines accordingly.
The minister also revealed that results of the on-going AES system review would only be ready some time early next year, disclosing that the authorities are working on a solution to incorporate the AES system with the Kejara demerit points system. “We are not dragging our feet, but the government has to come out with something which can be implemented for the benefit of the rakyat,” he said.
To date, the initial 14 cameras that were a part of the AES’s pilot phase have been responsible for more than 2.1 million issued summonses for various offences between September 23, 2012 to September 30, 2015. It is reported that up to half a billion ringgit in compounds have yet to be paid by traffic offenders.
Just weeks ago, a report by theSun suggested that the setbacks are due to technical issues surrounding evidence gathering, with a source close to the daily claiming that, “action under the pilot stage is plagued by a technicality arising from the evidence gathering process which was not done by enforcement officers. The first party at the AES control centres, who had collated the high-resolution photos of the alleged traffic offences, were staff of private companies.”
The source continued, “the first party’s role to gather the evidence should have been (carried out) by police or JPJ enforcement officers and not private company staff. This is the cause of the legal setback.”
In a recent letter between Liow and Shah Alam MP Khalid Samad, the Malay Mail reported that Liow had confirmed to the Shah Alam MP that the government has since paid RM60,122,080 in contract service fees to AES service providing companies, Beta Tegap Sdn Bhd, and ATES (M) Sdn Bhd.
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Funny this news comes right after the one announcing the RM22million worth of new vehicles for JPJ…
It is all about money, guys. So don’t be naive. Else where to find RM1.6bil to fund Proton.
Buy Proton or not, Malaysians are subsidizing them one way or other.
Better than giving money to UMW
You are more naive since you said you got 4 Lexus at home. And you bought your son saga
i dont have to pay AES because i follow the speed limit… its about safety… i drive w212
Why still need to cllect fines? Very simple. It is because of Songlapping. Government now bankrupt. No money.
for example, one man can songlap RM2.6 billion is just one news we know. What about the other times he songlap that we don’t know about? I think it runs to hundreds of billions.
Taib songlap US$20 billion (RM84 billion) also nothing happen to him. Infact he was rewarded for his songlap and made Governor and given a Tunship.
What about the songlaps by the other Menteri and Government officials?
It all runs to hundreds of billions per annum the Songlap.
This is why we have to pay hefty fines and higher tolls. Our guardians are more interested in Songlap than fighting for the rakyat to get goods and food that are affordable
follow the speed limit laa if dont want them to collect fines..simple maaaa
Taking Penang as a guide where there are 2.2 million registered motor vehicle owners, let us extrapolate this figure and times the 12 states (including Federal Territory) to determine the number of registered vehicles. We take the average of 2.2 million ( Road Transport Dept figures) as the average representing all states although some may have more and some perhaps less.
At best this is a very conservative estimate. Since our estimate is very conservative it follows that our final result will also be conservative. Since there are 12 states and each state has 2.2 registered motor owners , the total registered owners totalled 26.4 million. Let us further assume that at any point of time 50 percent of the registered vehicles are mobile on the road.
That means an average of 13.2 million vehicles will be plying the road at any given time in all the 12 states where the AES system is implemented. From the 13.2 million let us assume that 2 percent have committed traffic offences under the AES. That translate into a figure of 264,000 traffic summonses daily.
At the non negotiable rate of RM300 per summons, that translate into a daily figure of RM79,200,000 of money collected under the AES system. The share of the two private companies on a daily basis will be 30 percent of RM79,200,000 which translates to an income of RM23,760,000 per day.
On a yearly basis the income accrued would be RM8,672,400,000. And for the duration of the contract, which is 66 months, the total amount earned would be RM47,698,200,000 (i.e. RM47 billion, six hundred and ninety eight million and two hundred thousand.)
Please remember that the above figure for the traffic offenders taken was a lowly figure of 2 percent. If the figure had been 5 percent, the income earned would be astronomical.
Based on the above figure, is the Road Transport Department telling us the truth when they say that the implementation of the AES was not to reap exorbitant profit but to reduce road fatalities? Let Malaysians be the judge.
Such a corrupted company. Just 2 small Sdn Bhd making so much of money.
In a study done, these 2 small Sdn Bhd, will be earning a clean profit of over RM8 billion each if it is assumed a modest 2% of the cars on the road are saman in a year.
This is just a small modest estimate and this is after the profit sharing with LHDN and PDRM.
These 2 small companies are projected to earn over RM8 billion each. this is far more than Malaysia’s largest listed company on the Bursa Malaysia, Sime Darby who earns lesser.
Not only that, these two small companies hantam our money puas puas. When building the cameras, they charged the Government RM1 million per camera.
A far advanced DSLR camera is only RM2000 each….how can this camera cost RM1 million
Who owns this two small Sdn Bhd??
Minister Liow “We are not dragging our feet, but the government has to come out with something which can be implemented for the benefit of the rakyat,” Benefiting by robbing the Rakyat money… Transparency the only system that Rakyat needs !!!!! NOT TALK COCK ALL DAY LONG !!!
Third world country will always be third world no matter how because it is always ruled by those kambing. As a malaysian im not proud of being a malaysian at all. Time will tell and wawasan 2020 is near and what the country has achieved….. Good luck peeps
We all knows what to do to solve this current and future matters …
please put more AES cameras on KESAS..speed limit 90km/h but majorities whack well over 100km/h!..teach them a lesson how to drive properly
If you want to drive slower please use the middle or the last lane.
If you want to drive slow, please move to kampung. You must be those idiot who always drive 60kmh on highway.
Just get it over with and get this darn AES
up & running.
Is this how the administration of this country operates when even this small task is taking ages to implement?
Talk less and stop the “for the rakyat crap”
If its really for the rakyat & to reduce accidents then please stop dragging your feet Mr Transport minister. The longer we wait the more “compensation” has to be paid to the concessionar who has done nothing.
You are the leader of greet.
better dun bring all the performance car to malaysia and cut all car meter up to 80km/h la…..why cannot??coz cant make money in tax,and aso from summon ppl rite….all this money making tricks…how sure are you, ppl how drive slow wont meet in accident??if it meant to happen it will happen…
14 cameras and they spent RM60m? Assuming camera and setup plus operational cost total RM1m each. That’s RM14m, which is hell a lot. Which still leaves a superfat profit of RM46m. Nicely done. Too bad I don’t have that sort of business acumen …