The Road Transport Department (JPJ) has announced that it will be conducting Ops Tahun Baru Cina (TBC) to further clamp down on cloned cars in Johor. According to The Star, the state has seen its fair share of clone car cases, having seized nearly 100 vehicles since last year and 22 units just last month.
“The department will be conducting Ops Tahun Baru Cina (TBC) to curb car cloning cases that has become a trend not only in the city but also in the districts such as Kluang, Muar, Pontian, Tenang, Sri Gading and others,” said Mohd Rusdi Mohd Darus, a director of Johor JPJ.
Rusdi continued to say that Ops TBC would be examining vehicle chassis numbers and registration plates. “Owners who fail to provide legal information about the vehicles will be sent to the JPJ office for further investigation,” he said.
Operations will last until February 16, and those found guilty may be fined up to RM12,000 under Section 108 of the Road Transport Act 1987 for making a false report and Section 7 for driving a non registered vehicle.
Concerned over new statistics for 2015 that suggest up 60% of accidents involved motorcycles and another 1% being express busses, the JPJ director also revealed that Ops TBC would be paying closer attention to the road-worthiness of these vehicles, too.
“During Ops TBC, we will be checking express buses and motorcycles to ascertain if their brakes and tyres are roadworthy,” he said, highlighting that express busses would be examined at the Larkin and Bentayan Bus Terminal, as well as Machap and Pagoh rest areas.
Additionally, JPJ will also be carrying out Ops Sikap from February 2 to 16 in an attempt to weed out errant motorists on the road. Some 100 JPJ officers will be going undercover on express busses and more, nationwide, to catch law-breaking motorists on the spot.
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All these government bodies should clamp down themselves first. All these prostitution centre around still surviving, why? Answer is simple: Corruption. Even the head of the police is corrupted, monthly “allowances” from these red house operators. You happy, bapak ayam happy, happy ending.
Wrong my friend in Malaysia aka Bolehland Ministry called it “Donation” not Corruption !!! Just tell the police or judge is from “Donations”.
Beware! Toyota klon cars without VSC and 2 airbags only.
If you ask me, you can help reduce road fatalities by letting Malaysian afford vehicles with better safety features and also help poor Malaysian on motorbikes afford basic cars with good safety features. All these quick fixes are meaningless if the root cause is not fixed.
Why is Malaysia not doing that? Oh yeah, we need the money to pay off the donation and controversies…
You are missing the point,
More cars even with better safety will not help with Fatalities. LEARN TO DRIVE and BE CIVIL. Those 2 alone enough to reduce fatalities!
FFS… dumb ass citizens nowadays and also feel entitled when spending 700 at KLCC. PUI la.
Exactly. Driving lessons and issuance of licences should be more stringent. The police should check and pull people aside for dangerous driving. There are already laws in place – lax enforcement (or poor priorities) is the problem.
There are bigger issues than clone cars.
Kita semua tau ni semua orang dalaman punya kerja, sekarang nak suruh tangkap orang jahat pulak…
lawaklah JpJ ni… macam suruh perompak tangkap pencuri ni.
First,why need to announce?
Second,these clone cars exist due to incompetence of JPJ+KDRM.
Go clean up your mess.and dont announce it like it was some sort of achievement.be ashamed that all these can happen under your authority.
Just gave donation to jpj officer because brake light got 1 not function
I really cannot understand these “clowns”. Why carry out operations during Chinese New Year and caused massive traffic jams in the process. Is it because the Chinese are more generous with their donations because of the auspicious occasion? Wonder what they do in their fancy hyped up vehicles on normal work days; busy collecting “donations” from lorry drivers and buses?
I will join you in your anger if none of the snake heads doing this cloning kangtow is Chinese.
so how do these so called clone vehicles get road tax in the first place??
TBC? Just say cari makan lah.
Why on earth must things be done through Ops this and Ops that? Why can’t it be a daily SOP?
Cari makan.
baguslah bagi tau awal2 bila start, lokasi, dan bila operaasi tamat…so semua crony dan pembeli abang J boleh simpan dulu kereta di rumah. thanks
if a car stopped by the road block:
Kong hee fatt choy, Boss. “Ang paw” ada kah??