Traffic Cops get to keep 70% of fines

John Bingham · Post by **John Bingham** » Tue Apr 21, 2020 1:09 pm

rexwell wrote: ↑Tue Apr 21, 2020 12:07 pm
Fun Factoid: Some people believe that they save gas by keeping their lights turned off at night.

It's true, but it's so little gas it's not worth bothering.

Post by **Username Taken** » Tue Apr 21, 2020 1:32 pm

Cops keeping a % of the fines has been the norm for many, many years.
Did they stop doing it and just brought it back again, or what?

John Bingham · Post by **John Bingham** » Tue Apr 21, 2020 1:41 pm

A few years back they announced that fines would no longer be paid on the street - a ticket would be issued and the fine would be paid at the station.

Post by **Username Taken** » Tue Apr 21, 2020 1:44 pm

John Bingham wrote: ↑Tue Apr 21, 2020 1:41 pm A few years back they announced that fines would no longer be paid on the street - a ticket would be issued and the fine would be paid at the station.

That's right. I must be coming down with old timer's disease at a young age.

Jerry Atrick · Post by **Jerry Atrick** » Tue Apr 21, 2020 3:01 pm

John Bingham wrote: ↑Tue Apr 21, 2020 1:41 pm A few years back they announced that fines would no longer be paid on the street - a ticket would be issued and the fine would be paid at the station.

At that time (was it 2015 or 2016?), there was a three month long crackdown on drink driving, speeding and other trivial traffic offences. Fines also increased.

It was then, not now, that they incentivised the cops with the keep 75% carrot.

Albror · Post by **Albror** » Tue Apr 21, 2020 4:25 pm

lagrange wrote: ↑Tue Apr 21, 2020 8:07 amit may also encourage them to fine as many people as possible for whatever reason they can come up with, since they get 70% of the fine - wouldnt anyone?

I dont see why that would be something new with this? Police could not lie and ask for money before?

My personal experience with police diriving ALOT here cross provinces, citys, PP etc is that the police are not that bad. They never stop me for some bullshit reason. They can just stop 10 khmer guys in the same time who actually broke the law instead of arguing with me for 30min.

Post by **Username Taken** » Tue Apr 21, 2020 4:29 pm

Jerry Atrick wrote: ↑Tue Apr 21, 2020 3:01 pm
John Bingham wrote: ↑Tue Apr 21, 2020 1:41 pm A few years back they announced that fines would no longer be paid on the street - a ticket would be issued and the fine would be paid at the station.
At that time (was it 2015 or 2016?), there was a three month long crackdown on drink driving, speeding and other trivial traffic offences. Fines also increased.

It was then, not now, that they incentivised the cops with the keep 75% carrot.

Are you sure about that? I'd say it was a good ten years before that (at least).

Jerry Atrick · Post by **Jerry Atrick** » Tue Apr 21, 2020 5:18 pm

Username Taken wrote: ↑Tue Apr 21, 2020 4:29 pm
Jerry Atrick wrote: ↑Tue Apr 21, 2020 3:01 pm
John Bingham wrote: ↑Tue Apr 21, 2020 1:41 pm A few years back they announced that fines would no longer be paid on the street - a ticket would be issued and the fine would be paid at the station.
At that time (was it 2015 or 2016?), there was a three month long crackdown on drink driving, speeding and other trivial traffic offences. Fines also increased.

It was then, not now, that they incentivised the cops with the keep 75% carrot.
Are you sure about that? I'd say it was a good ten years before that (at least).

I'm quite certain. Ten years ago was another story.

But, around 2016 or so, they ramped up speeding tests and drink driving tests.

Lasted all of six month, but an important part of that initiative was to give each station 70 or 75% of all revenue raised in order to incentivise the cops to actually write the tickets.

fazur · Post by **fazur** » Tue Apr 21, 2020 6:18 pm

reason for scrapping big fines for drunk driving was it could make people 'angry'

not sure why the logic here and now is any different

$16 is abig hit for lots of expats imagine for akhmer eraning les sthan half of our salary

AndyKK · Post by **AndyKK** » Wed Apr 22, 2020 2:52 am

fazur wrote: ↑Tue Apr 21, 2020 6:18 pm reason for scrapping big fines for drunk driving was it could make people 'angry'

not sure why the logic here and now is any different

$16 is abig hit for lots of expats imagine for akhmer eraning les sthan half of our salary

Don't worry yourself too much about that, they will make it near equal if possible, like, one of the times we were stopped, and rightly so, because she decided riding pillion she would remove her helmet, $5 fine, should have been $2.50 but would not give me a ticket, if he had you can carry on with the offence of no helmet for the rest of the day. So around the corner same again, this time she argued with the two traffic cops, she being an officer in the military police, $2.50 like you just charged the other two Khmer, he switched on my lights, $5 dollars, firm was his answer.

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