New traffic unit issues 62 tickets in first week
(CNS): The new RCIPS Eastern Districts Road Policing Unit (EDRPU) issued 62 tickets to drivers in its first week after focusing on school zones in the districts. Forty-six people were pulled over for speeding, including seven drivers who were travelling at more than double the school zone speed limit. This is 15mph during school drop-off and pick-up times.
“Over the course of the week my team saw many motorists driving above the 15mph speed limit through the school zones, when the reduced speed limit warning lights were flashing,” said EDRPU Manager PS Joleta Wolliston.
“Children are unpredictable and can dart out from behind parked cars onto the roadway at any moment. This is why it is vital to abide by the 15mph speed limit during the specified times in school zones, in order to enable our children to get safely to and from school.”
Over the coming weeks, the new traffic team will keep their attention on the schools, issuing tickets or sending Traffic Offence Reports (TOR) for anyone who exceeds the sum of $500. Anyone who receives a TOR will need to attend court and could lose their licence. The fine is $40 for each mile over the speed limit of 15mph whilst lights are flashing.
“We want to emphasis to motorists that speeding is really not worth the risk when you weigh up the potential outcomes,” said Inspector Andre Tahal, Head of the RCIPS Traffic and Road Policing Unit.
“Not only are you endangering yourself, your passengers and other road users when you speed, but also, when you are caught, your wallet and your lifestyle take a hit too when you find yourself paying fines or losing your licence for a period of time. Please slow down, particularly in school zones, and always drive with consideration of other road users,” he added.
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I realized it’s not only Jamaicans that are speeding but they get all the blame I wonder why.
Please have regular patrols along the “speedway” stretch between the roundabout by Hurley’s and up to spot’s dock?
It’s really ridiculous, and it’s all age ranges of driver’s and one can also see that it’s multiple nationalities (not just the one’s always referred to).
Please slow down, and respect the road rules and other drivers
You could sit at the roundabout by ALTs and ticket 62 drivers within an hour.
Or any other roundabout in Cayman.
Or any stretch of road really!
Jamaican cops don’t usually arrest Jamaicans, maybe just make, they are afraid.
No cops again today from Savannah all the way to central GT. At least 10 cars speeding a weaving in and out of traffic dangerously. More cops need to be out from 6-7am.
There are 6 of them there, so that’s about 10 per officer over a week. How much are they paid per hour versus the fines netted? Let’s not be too impressed with this. In urban centers in the states, traffic officers can often net over 50 per shift each. They work together, using their $5mln radios too. RCIPS have much to learn.
Maybe it’s time to update the driving license theory and practical test!?
Roundabout use, defensive driving, the correct distance between vehicles and mirror usage are some of the few that need major improvement!
We also see many instances of uninsured cars, unqualified cars- many dangerous and unroadworthy, sneaking about the streets.
I imagine cost and access to proper public transportation are real hurdles in this instance. Until this is addressed, I don’t see this ever not being a real concern.
Perhaps govt can come together and stir up a solution with customs and the insurance industry?!It wont be easy but this is the sort of effort that grabs my attention during election season.
Two comments, 1.what about real speeders doing 60 to 70mph along S. Church St?. 2.As for these constant and highly “liked” Jacan comments, how many of this year’s traffic fatalities were Jacans?.
This story is about tickets issued in the Eastern Districts.
All of the fatalities were Jamaican in 2022 with the exception of the toddler who died tragically recently. Car driver, Father, a Jamaican.
Does that answer?
So it is appearing that 6 Jamaicans have happened to kill themselves and a Caymanian and the Freaking police farce will not publicly state that there is an issue with the driving habits of many Jamaicans in our community. Nor will it call for some tightening on the acceptance of Jamaican licenses in Cayman? Shut them down. Camana Bay security does a better job as a police force.
can they start issuing tickets for cars driving in the wrong (right) lane when they have no business being there?
Yes!! Slow idiots in the wrong lane actually cause accidents. In Canada this is a fine.
not to mention prevent emergency service vehicles from passing as they’re too idiotic to realize they are in the wrong lane
So you can….speed
Give it up.
6 cops, 7 days = 62 tickets. I am oversimplifying this but rough math that equates to…
1.5 tickets per cop per day.
They need to do better. On my daily drive I see at least 5 infractions…between seatbelts/speeding/phones and tint, they should be handing out 20 tickets per day each!!…at least until kids stop dying in senseless car wrecks.
Give them a medal for just showing up!
Speeding sure, but while you have them pulled over, check the window tint or any other problems with the vehicles you might have concerns about and send them to a mandatory inspection at Breakers (not the kind of inspection where they don’t look at the vehicle).
While we are on traffic, you could write 62 tickets a day at the four way by Hospital Road.
Now you got me started… Are Jake brakes legal or not? There is zero reason to use them here. Let’s write some tickets for that, you could probably get 62 a day if you hung out by Hurleys roundabout. Please be out there at 5:00 am please so i can for once get some sleep.
Sit there for an hour and you can get 200 for failing to indicate. The lack of enforcement is insane.
Or indicating the wrong way. People absolutely have no idea how to use their indicators here.
Utterly pointless sending them to Breakers.
Had my car inspected there recently. They looked under the car for less than 2 mins, didn’t check anything else at all, not even headlights, and signed it off for a year. Literally didn’t touch the car once.
I look after my cars, but many don’t, so lord knows what dangerous scrapheap they’ve certified?!
Soon they’ll be back to the over-zealou$$ approach they had in the 70s, 80s & 90s – chasing people recklessly and causing crashes and deaths.
Can’t win for losing, I guess.
While I’m all for more traffic units the school zones need rethinking – not the police’s job. There’s usually no kids around when they are flashing. I’d buy the worry about kids dashing out from between parked cars if there were either cars or kids on the side of the road. The result is the police are wasting officers protecting against non-threats and making them sound silly trying to justify it. We all know there’s bad driving on the roads so keep going out there and catching them wherever they are. And if that means needing to police the school zones to get the point across I can accept that. That’s the police job and good to know they’re doing it more.
It’s a start, but far below the number that’s needed. Hopefully this enforcement will include the bus drivers.
And 15mph really is too slow, it’s not like cars today are the 6,000 lb. cars with drum brakes on gravel roads of yesteryear. 25mph is plenty slow enough. And lets also address some of the vehicles around in dilapidated condition, smoke billowing out and trucks overloaded, dump trucks carrying wet marl, making a mess for other road users. Gardeners blowing yard debris into the roads etc.
Consistent enforcement is the only way for a chance at the needed change in driving habits.
So you are advocating for increased speed limits in school zones during school hours?
Wow.
So they’re going to start ticketing in school zones right when all the schools are closing for Easter??
So out of nearly 450 full time officers, we have just 6 assigned to Traffic Law/regulations enforcement, and only in the district of East End? This isn’t enough.
No. Where does it say that? You assume because there are onl6 6 police in this photo, that’s all there are?
They already have a team of traffic officers already based town. This is a new team for the Eastern Districts.
They just added more. The article came out last week.
Then that’s an even worse ticketing ratio than what we see here.
They managed to write two tickets a day each!
fair start.
Ms Wolliston,my dash cam has hundreds of incidents recorded…do you want the footage?
Nobody likes a tattletale.
And everyone hates and treats with disdain a police force that refuses to act even when evidence is handed to them on an electronic plate.
I hope EMS is standing by. A lot of drivers are going to have heart attacks and strokes from the shock of encountering a cop parked in a school zone.
Check demographics of speeders..i bet 80% jacans???
Any doing more than 20mph over, or in a school zone? Report them to immigration? Go on, I dare you! Or don’t you really care about keeping our Islands safe?
Ìn the Brac by some of the schools, they have the 15 mph flashing lights, then a few hundred feet further towards the school it’s a 25 mph sign. So if one sees a flashing sign, they slow to 15 mph, then they see a 25 mph sign, according to signs it’s ok to speed up to 25 before getting to the school ? It should be the other way around, 25 mph sign first, then the flashing sign before getting close to the school. I reported this, (and its plain to see by everyone) but nothing was ever done to correct it.
Good job, keep it up.
62 in the first week? Maybe the first day and I’d be satisfied they are doing their jobs properly. Nevertheless, good first start.
Congrats, an amazing 7 tickets per day! Or 1 or 2 tickets per officer per shift. Let’s get these officers a bonus!
Franzies for all! #worldclass
Exactly. Works out as 1.5 tickets per officer, per day. This is going to take some time.
Its as if they want a medal for doing their job.
You don’t any press, just go out, put your heads down and keep on doing this consistently.
Don’t give it a special name, don’t commend them for doing what’s expected of every police force anywhere, just keep it up please.
There’s no reason this lot should be posing for photos.
Good. Keep it up! These reckless drivers and speeders need to be held accountable!
I wonder if the Traffic Unit is willing to reveal the nationalities of those 62. How many Jamaican drivers received tickets?
Well. That may or may not be influenced by the origins of the cops…