Dubai’s traffic police issued more than 5,200 wrong traffic tickets against drivers in the first half of 2013, but cancelled all of them, the traffic police chief has said.
Investigators have also discovered attempts by nearly 4,200 drivers to evade payment of fines by hiding part of their vehicle plate numbers, Major General Mohammed Saif Al Zafeen said in local press remarks published on Saturday.
“We have found that 5,260 tickets issued by the traffic police in the first half of this year were wrong. We have immediately corrected them,” he said.
He said some of those penalties were against drivers found to be parking their vehicles on the hard shoulder of the road.
“The policeman who issued that ticket mentioned unjustified illegal parking without bothering asking the driver, but after the driver complained about it, we found that he parked his car there after his wife suffered from a sudden illness,” he said.
“Other tickets were issued by mistake against vehicles, but they were destined for other vehicles after the police who issued these tickets made a mistake in registering the car number.
“We have also found that some policemen abuse their authority and we continuously try to create awareness and educate them.”