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An unexpected traffic blitz yesterday in Avarua town had motorists diving for their driver's licences and other documents as a long queue formed from the police headquarters to the market place about a quarter of a mile away.
Some were fined on the spot for not having warrant of fitness stickers on their vehicles and others for not having their driver's licence. Others were given time to pay up their fines.
Yesterday's blitz is the start of more serious and increased traffic policing directed by Police Commissioner Patrick Tasker.
Tasker said police will no longer be lenient towards traffic offenders in the future in an effort to reduce careless driving on Cook Islands roads.
"We will increase road checks and we want to make the Cook Islands a safer place," Tasker said.
Public opinion supported the current move by police following a recent rise in traffic accidents. |
