Looks like the government will not be clearing the backlog of outstanding offences gathered throughout the pilot phase of the Automated Enforcement System (AES), after all. According to a report by theSun, over 1.6 million traffic offences logged by said system may be nullified.
The English-language daily has “reliably learnt” that the ones in power are likely to write-off the pending charges and the accompanying total of around half a billion ringgit in collectable fines that have been accounted for since September 2012. Sources have told the publication that the government is prepared to drop the offences and move straight on into implementing the second phase.
“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 disclosed.
“The first party role to gather the evidence should have been (carried out) by police or Road Transport Department enforcement officers and not private company staff. This is the cause of a legal setback,” added said source. Said idle court cases appear to have hindered the implementation of the second phase – the new phase is to be helmed by agencies under the Malaysian Ministry of Transport.
“The massive number of outstanding court cases under AES phase one is like monkeys on the government’s back. We need to get it off now to avoid AES becoming a sunken ship,” said a senior government official. As for those who have settled their summonses, the official said that “the government could return the fines paid to prove that AES is not a money-making exercise but a real programme for saving lives on the road.”
From September 2012 to April 30 2015, a total of 1.91 million AES summonses were issued with only 264,750 of the total settled – a total of RM76,647,750 in fines have been collected. The second phase of the AES system is set to encompass a total of 262 locations nationwide by end 2015. Cameras will be mounted mostly at signalled intersections this time round to help curb red light running violations.
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Governance of law and enforcement! Road users are not taking it seriously if there is no consistency in enforcement and education about safety on roads. This is not a money making business but adherence to safe road usage.
Governance of law and enforcement only apply in 1st world country. 3rd world country like Malaysia “Cronies of law and enforcement” law of profit and enforcement of coercion to abuse Rakyat and small business…
This is normal practice in Malaysia. They get contracts and everyone else suffers cause the Government must use our money to compensate them
Malaysia negara jujur la bang. Tak suka, keluar lah. Nak tinggal, jangan persoal, syukur kita tinggal negara selamat.
In Bolehland…..those who pay summons early are considered SORCHAI cos either these pravatised bastards give hefty DISCOUNTS later or ABOLISH it totally by surrendering their business and get BIG PROFITS.
WE ARE THE ONLY COUNTRY in the world encouraging motorists to delay or not paying summons.SHAMBOLIC.
Ulu Yam and Genting curves need more of these than a straight road highway.
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 RM10 billion each if it is assumed a modest 10% of the cars on the road are saman in a year. This is just a small modest estimate and this is after the proft sharing with LHDN and PDRM.
these 2 small companies are projected to earn over RM10 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 comanies 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??
Who owns this two small Sdn Bhd??
Some MCAi, Gerak’an, Umnos key person own’s both company..
I think it is just UMNo lah bro. the other two are non existent.
This is malaysia anything also can. ruled by a bunch of ido** who will do anything to stay powered. I bet this AES will resumed once budget 2016 is over.
Useless government…no sense of direction on just implementing this simple system correctly, wat else handling bigger matter…
Kerajaan prihatin, Rakyat happy
If collection of only 264,750 summons totals RM76 million. Had they collected all 1.91 million summons, they would’ve pocketed RM553 million. So, they are writing off RM477 million??
What are they doing with the money collected? So, why is there involvement of private firms? Please don’t use this as a channel to make money! There are jobs that must be run by government. Can judicial or police department become privatize? Of course procurement and maintenance of these technology should be left to the experts in such field. Use the money collected to promote road safety, improve road conditions, create jobs for enforcement, invest in technology for monitoring and informing road users. Think about human lives….this is a government or enforcement officers’ role. Rakyat pays taxes directly and indirectly through road tax, vehicle purchase, bus or taxi fares, tolls and fuel. These taxes should channeled back to rakyat on road safety enforcement and education.
That is what they tell you and us. Most likely, each of the companies already made their killing ie few billion Ringgit. This is drama to show people they write off and care for rakyat.
Woohoo! Thank q Pakatan for helping us to force our summons to be cancelled! Now I know if they takeover, we dun need to care about traffic laws anymore! hooray! hooray! for Dear Leader!
hooray for dear leader’s Rm2.6 billion too
You wrong. Dear leader has 3 billion in Selangor piggybank. Taking good care by his godson until next GE.
oh Malaysia – increasingly suppressed
red light running violation? in putrajaya, there are a lot of “belok kiri jika tiada kenderaan” signs. most drivers just turn left even there is vehicle around or honking the vehicle in front if the driver don’t turn left.
Guys,
Instead of turning every paultan post into a political bashing ground, can we stop for a minute and look at ourselves. Have we not seen too many unruly and dangerous drivers on the road these days endangering others on the road? You have seen some on paultans videos, heck probably even experienced some yourself. And worse part, these guys get away with it!! So i really dont mind AES working, especially for those junction one’s to catch people beating the red light because it is really dangerous!
Just my 2 cents
I kena pukul from road bully also, got so many cameras around and yet polis said mahu tutup case. Say got no evidence.
but there were at least 20 different cameras facing where I got whacked. Many from Buildings and shop lots. So how abang?
Rakyat says dun care as long as bash Gov kau-kau, whether is good or bad. If you oso dun bash means you are BN lapdog
Classic example of “LPPL”
I wonder if the fines they have collected so far is interest bearing or not since they can’t use that money for other purposes.
You may actually receive back more than you paid, unless the money is “gone”.
Somehow they didn’t see this technical issue when they first implemented AES.
Return your paid summons? I heard a lot about refunds every time gov goes back on their word but each time you only read/heard it’s plague by issues when wanna claim back. Even gst also keep delaying the claims, let alone summons.