Police "check-points" suspended immediately
Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2018 10:11 am
You know those police check-points where you thought the authorities were controlling dangerously overloaded vehicles or illegal trafficking ? In reality, it turns out that the police were stopping motorists for bribes, and the government have said they are putting a stop to this shocking behavior.
Mobile checkpoints suspended countrywide
Breaking news - 8 January 2018
Interior Minister Sar Kheng has ordered all mobile checkpoints on roads and waterways in the country to be suspended immediately.
Mr Kheng revoked the right of administrations in the capital and at provincial, city and district levels to place checkpoints. Ministries and institutions will also be barred from setting them up.
According to a letter on the issue of checkpoints signed by Mr Kheng, checkpoints placed by various authorities at different levels were a burden for citizens, and were affecting their freedoms and rights.
“The elimination of checkpoints is aimed at implementing government policy to provide services and to improve the public’s standard of living by promoting a daily life free of disturbances,” the letter said.
The letter also said that if a situation calls for the implementation of checkpoints, relevant institutions or authorities will have to submit a request to a command committee, which would scrutinise each request to avoid anarchy on the roads and waterways.
Kin Seyma, a taxi driver between Phnom Penh and Kratie province, said he had not seen a mobile checkpoint in the past few days.
“Checkpoints were supposedly put in place to check overloaded vehicles and search for weapons or explosives, but really they just stopped overloaded trucks or trucks carrying timber to get a bribe,” Mr Seyma said.
He said he never carried anything contrary to regulations, so police never asked him to pay money. He added that if vehicle inspection were carried out according to regulations by competent authorities, it would be good for all passengers, but he believed officers at mobile checkpoints were not doing it for the people’s safety but for money...
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Mobile checkpoints suspended countrywide
Breaking news - 8 January 2018
Interior Minister Sar Kheng has ordered all mobile checkpoints on roads and waterways in the country to be suspended immediately.
Mr Kheng revoked the right of administrations in the capital and at provincial, city and district levels to place checkpoints. Ministries and institutions will also be barred from setting them up.
According to a letter on the issue of checkpoints signed by Mr Kheng, checkpoints placed by various authorities at different levels were a burden for citizens, and were affecting their freedoms and rights.
“The elimination of checkpoints is aimed at implementing government policy to provide services and to improve the public’s standard of living by promoting a daily life free of disturbances,” the letter said.
The letter also said that if a situation calls for the implementation of checkpoints, relevant institutions or authorities will have to submit a request to a command committee, which would scrutinise each request to avoid anarchy on the roads and waterways.
Kin Seyma, a taxi driver between Phnom Penh and Kratie province, said he had not seen a mobile checkpoint in the past few days.
“Checkpoints were supposedly put in place to check overloaded vehicles and search for weapons or explosives, but really they just stopped overloaded trucks or trucks carrying timber to get a bribe,” Mr Seyma said.
He said he never carried anything contrary to regulations, so police never asked him to pay money. He added that if vehicle inspection were carried out according to regulations by competent authorities, it would be good for all passengers, but he believed officers at mobile checkpoints were not doing it for the people’s safety but for money...
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50100578/mo ... untrywide/