The transport ministry says that driving institutes will not have their permits revoked or their businesses suspended for accidents or traffic offences caused by their former students.
According to transport minister Datuk Seri Wee Ka Siong, the call to do so – which drew criticism from various parties – is only a personal view of the road transport department (JPJ) director-general and not a policy decision by the ministry.
“Any policy direction or any improvement proposal will of course be studied holistically and scientifically first by the transport ministry by taking into account various relevant aspects including its effectiveness, feasibility and ability to achieve the set objectives,” he said via a statement.
He explained that this detailed study will also involve engagement sessions with all stakeholders to obtain views and suggestions for improvement. Wee added that at present, the ministry and agencies under it will continue the existing policy of advocacy and enforcement activities to create awareness among road users.
At the end of January, JPJ director-general Datuk Zailani Hashim said the move to cancel or suspend a driving institute’s permit, which is currently at the planning stage, would be implemented nationwide by placing a code on the driving license to detect which driving institute the traffic offender received his/her training from.
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Whenever there is a large number of former students of a particular driving school or instructor committed road traffic offense or involved in an accident, enforcement authorities shall open investigation towards these suspicious driving institution or instructor. Most of these careless drivers are actually unqualified to obtained driving license, therefore there are a few hanky panky driving school instructor collaborated with RTD personnel to wholesale driving license passes to them.
Keyword; “there are a few hanky panky driving school”
JPJ DG packs his bags, case closed.
Why is Ka Siongkor doing damage control for the DG of JPJ?
The dude should be in Donald trump’s famous “You’re fired”.
So pathetic,these top civil servants on taxringgit payroll,should be demoted to a clerk’s desk job,instead of waiting for a fat pension,while at the same time talking as if he is eccentric Elon Musk.
He is not doing damage control, he is mediating between these 2 and actually sounding the DG off for not considering all the stakeholders when making his speech. I respect him for that.
even mediating is also 1 form of damage control
Errrr… Anthony Lok? Transport Minister?
That TM was more interested at selling fancy number plates and coming out with useless programs than actually caring about road safety.
He use pukau to make JPJ DG confuse…
They all pukau us to vote them in 2018, now we now better.
No doubt his pukau not strong enuff & that’s why kalah to the grandmasters of pukau at sheraton.
I think that is a file photo when he was taking a driving test..
so JPJ director personal opinion can have that idea up to planning stage in the department and minister did not know about this?
just wow.
malaysian government indeed is going down the drain.
Do you know all the time what your sibling is thinking until they say it? If not, does it mean your family relations is going down the drain?
Jeez, it is a personal opinion which obviously was not vetted by the ministry.
jpj dg himself can’t even tell 1st it’s his personal comment & everybody thought he speaking for his gomen dept & now give silly excuse that jpj dg & wks are like siblings?
Of course the driving schools won’t be punished after JPJ got a reality check that they are the one tested the students and not the driving school.
Senang-senang je nak blame orang lain.
the move by JPJ DG is nonsense. it is like a politician is caught for graft and the entire party must be punished because they didn’t guide him well enough.
Is that what we did back in 2018 when we punish the collective for certain bad hats?
when bad hats are leaders of the collective, the collective should have removed & replaced the bad hats.