During this festive period, Road transport is fully used for public transport where many accidents happen due to speeding and overloading. Excess passengers are the methods to boost pockets for the Trafic police. However, DPP wants to cut-short the siphoning mechanism by bringing in Cameras for speeding up investigations.
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| Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Noordin Haji profile. PHOTO | RMS |
Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP)
Noordin Haji has urged Inspector General of Police Hilary Mutyambai to
provide traffic police officers with body cameras to assist in
investigations in the case of road violations.
DPP Haji issued the directive following uproar about traffic charges
being preferred against excess passengers travelling in Public Service
Vehicles (PSVs) during the festive season.
“It will be in my view, difficult, to
gather enough evidence to demonstrate that an excess passenger refused
to comply with the order of a police officer or declined a request by
the owner, conductor and/or driver not to enter the PSV. In most cases,
it will be the word of the police officer against that of the
passenger” noted the DPP.
“Further, to assist in maintaining law and order on the road, to
reduce police excesses, to assist in case of violations, to support
investigations and to mitigate any possible corruption, it may be
prudent to consider providing officers assigned traffic duties with body
cameras.”
