To weed out errant motorists on the road, Ops Sikap will kick off from February 2 to the 16. The Road Transport Department (JPJ) will hold a joint operation with the police, Department of Environment and the Immigration Department during the Chinese New Year period, The Star reports.
A total of 100 enforcement officers from JPJ will go undercover on express buses to weed out law-breaking motorists. At the same time, the officers will also inspect buses for roadworthiness before they embark. An emphasis however, will be placed on motorcyclists as 60% of fatal road accidents involved riders, according to Transport Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai.
In relation to errant motorists, the JPJ will be keeping an eye out for red light dodgers, vehicles driving on the emergency lane, queue jumping, overtaking at double lines, hand phone usage while driving and failure to use safety helmets and seatbelts – labelled as the “seven big sins” by the JPJ director-general, Datuk Seri Ismail Ahmad.
“The undercover officers may take a ride on a bus from Alor Setar to Kuala Lumpur and monitor them if they are using their handphones or overtaking along stretches they are not supposed to,” said Ismail. “The errant drivers will be issued with on-the-spot summonses when they arrive at their destinations,” he added.
As for bus roadworthiness inspections, a certificate will be issued before buses are allowed to embark. “We will also be carrying out random checks at 82 express bus depots and 29 bus terminals nationwide to check on the drivers and condition of the buses. A certificate will be issued to allow the buses to leave the terminal or depot after clearing the inspection,” Ismail stated.
Additionally, Liow stated that over ten thousand road accidents were registered during the Chinese New Year period in 2014. “During the Chinese New Year period last year, a total of 17,632 road accidents were recorded, of which 186 resulted in 199 deaths,” he said, an average of 13 deaths a day. Between January and September last year, 4,203 fatal motorcycle accidents were recorded.
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Will they catch if back seat passengers aren’t using seatbelts?
JPJ should catch themselves. Not even a single JPJ officer on the ground is clean. A buddy of mine working at JPJ mainly road blocks also berani boast to me that he earns RM3000 clean profit per day.
My advice to JPJ, clean yourself first before you clean the rakyat
police = bride , yes
JPJ = very2 hard to bribe
police = bribe , yes
JPJ = very2 hard to bribe
and the biggest sin of them all!!!
accepting bribes!!!
SO basically it will be 100 officers working while going back to their kampung in batches…
Just say all buses will have undercover JPJ officers on board. This will make the driver behaves from the start rather than waiting the driver to break the law and give saman when reach the destination. What if the bus never reach destination because it got into accident due to the driver breaking the law?
In fact, bas kilang is one of the main culprits for exhaling enormous sotong-like black colour asap and simply park like their own roads.
Please look into this matter also.
afterwards JPJ officers will get beaten up just like the bus driver that assaulted the passengers that gone viral lately.
more reasons and opportunities for jpj officer to get their kopi money…..
Olden days people catch fish in the river to have daily meals and now we have seven sins who look for extras in the river of roads. Top of the seven sins are, police cars, police trafic, Spad, Jpj officers, we even seens costom offices which you sees in kedah area, immigrations offices and the biggest sins by example is 2.6 billion where you go to the bank Atm withdraw Rm 5000 everyday for 350 years if you still alive and find yourself smiling all the way to the coffin if not . Well guys they you goes the top of the list of the 7 biggest Sins