Guardia Civil Officers being pressurised to hand out more traffic fines!

[Captain Sensible]

There is an interesting article on the thinkspain website.

It reports that:
The Guardia Civil traffic department has been sending many of its agents in the Canary Islands letters asking them to increase the number of fines they hand out on the islands.

Officers have been threatened with losing their 240€ per month road safety bonus if the number of traffic fines does not increase immediately.

There is a monthly Individual Activity Summary (RAI in Spanish) that assesses the individual work of each agent: the number of fines handed out, statements taken, vehicles recovered, arrests made, road assists and even the number of kilometres done on two or four wheels. For example, helping a driver with a punctured tyre is worth 0.25 points, handing a fine to a truck driver is worth 4 points, etc.

See: http://www.thinkspain.com/news-spain/21991/traffic-police-officers-pressurised-into-handing-out-more-fines

[KWC]

This will steer people more towards the Package/AI route where they are transported directly to the hotels. Less opprotunities for the car hire companies and SC establishments, as I for one wouldn't want to pay any hyper inflated fines for some trivial motoring offence if indeed there was one in the first place!

Once again it seems the motorists are an easy picking/prey.  IMHO

[Captain Sensible]

If your car meets all the legal requirements; all your paperwork is in order, and you're obeying all the traffic signs and rules of the road, then they can't get you.

There are plenty of people that are breaking the law, so they should be easy pickings!  In Puerto del Rosario, from what I've seen, only about half the drivers wear seatbelts

[woe10]

Today I've seen at least 3 people on the phone while they were driving. One lady was trying to negotiate a roundabout at the same time.

[falkirkdan]

I dont think it is a case of them handing out more tickets, more a case of them not pocketing the money or am I just cynical.

Anyway surely if a traffic dept are doing their job properly the number of tickets should be reducing.

[Voldermort]

Last week saw one of the Guardia booking the driver of one of the orange Grupo 1884 coaches but so far havent seen any taxi drivers pulled over.....then of course we will know they mean business

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Re: Guardia Civil Officers being pressurised to hand out more traffic fines!
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FINE the silly oblivious cow.....................

[Ivemovedon]

Thats confirmed my suspicions that traffic enforcement on the island has always had its focus on cash and career enhancement rather than safe roads.

[Captain Sensible]

Stedge, surely the two are linked - if you're breaking the law (which is for road safety) then you'll get fined

[Ivemovedon]

Of course they're linked captain. I would just feel a little more easy if there was less pressure on officers to gain points which will affect them financially, and on the spot fines to my mind will only encourage corruption. As i've said before there is a thin dividing line between aggresive traffic enforcement and sheer harassment in order to meet targets. 

[falkirkdan]

It would be interesting to find out the proportion of traffic offence tickets which are handed out to Majareos compared to the number of tourists and immigrants which of course the Irish, British, German and other ex pats are.

[Ivemovedon]

Yes dan i'd like to see those figures too. Along with the fine rate of local taxis. That would make interesting reading i'm sure.

[falkirkdan]

Yes dan i'd like to see those figures too. Along with the fine rate of local taxis. That would make interesting reading i'm sure.

Now Steve you are stretching the imagination,  fines for local taxis, could there be such a thing!!

[appy ammer]

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