Police clamping down on vehicles breaching traffic regulations

The Guyana Police Force has begun a campaign to crack down on drivers of vehicles with heavily tinted windows, stickers, obscure ID marks, and breaches of the condition of prescribed fitness among other breaches that are in violation of the traffic laws.

This GPF campaign, titled ‘Operation Safe Road’, would see ranks within various divisions launching a comprehensive campaign to go after errant owners and drivers of vehicles in which these breaches are committed.
A vehicle’s front windshield, the driver’s side, and the front passenger’s side window can all be tinted, but the tint must accommodate the penetration of light, according to the Police Force.
Police in Regional Division 4’B’ have begun pulling over vehicles suspected of having windows on which extra tinting has been applied.
They have also searched for the breach of condition of Road Service License Section 65(3)(Music/Stickers), failure to have a conductor, carrying more persons than the permitted amount, failure to produce a driver’s licence, failure to wear a seatbelt, unlicensed conductor, uninsured motor vehicle, and unlicensed motor vehicle.
This exercise was undertaken between Friday and Monday by the Traffic Officer in Charge of the Providence Police Station district, Inspector Jordon, and ranks under his command. According to the Force, this attempt was to mitigate the breaching of safety conditions on the roadways.
Also, on Monday, similar exercises were conducted by ranks of Traffic Headquarters at Eve Leary and at stations along the East Bank of Demerara against motor vehicles with coloured lights and graphic designs.
Another traffic exercise was then held on Tuesday on the Diamond Public Road, East Bank Demerara, by Corporal Edwards and Corporal Haniff, Traffic ranks of Regional Police Division 4(B), and several vehicles were pulled in.
Traffic Chief Superintendent Dennis Stephens has only recently said that while tinting of vehicles is not illegal, the Police Force has an issue with the percentage of tint that is placed on some vehicles.
The Traffic Chief has said there are persons who are violating the law by putting tint on their vehicles even though they are aware that they first have to seek permission to do so.
For those persons who refuse to abide by the warnings of the Police Force on tints and other traffic conditions, Stephens said, the Police will be launching campaigns that would deal with those drivers.
Earlier this year, Police from Traffic Headquarters at Eve Leary conducted a two-hour targeted traffic campaign on Route 42 minibuses, during which several minibus operators were arrested after they were found to be in breach of Section 19 (1) of the Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic Regulations, Chapter 51:02, which speaks to alterations of motor vehicles occasioning higher licence duty.
Some of the infractions were: the addition of amplifiers, speaker boxes, stickers, visors on the back windscreens, and tint. (G9)