Traffic cops dish out speeding tickets over holiday weekend
(CNS): The RCIPS issued dozens of speeding tickets and other traffic citations over the National Heroes holiday weekend, 19-23 January, in the Eastern Districts of Grand Cayman and on Cayman Brac. Following Operation Winter Guardian, the seasonal road safety campaign at the end of last year, the RCIPS is continuing enhanced traffic enforcement with Operation Borage. Officers issued 53 speeding tickets on the two islands and another 43 tickets for other traffic offences.
Road safety operations were also carried out in George Town and West Bay, with additional prosecutions for offences such as using a mobile phone while driving, driving without insurance, and DUI. Officers also focused on community engagement and inspections at locations known for anti-social activities.
“The purpose of these enforcement efforts is not only to prosecute and deter traffic offences but also to deter more serious crimes by restricting the movement of those who would commit them,” said Superintendent Richard Barrow. “We continue our commitment to promoting road safety, especially during periods of increased road activity, as we work with our partners in government to support the National Road Safety Strategy, ‘Safe Roads, Safe Cayman: The Road to Zero’.”
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Every morning at 6 am or even earlier im almost written off by some idiot on my side of the road on a sweeping bed. no lights. no care in the world. its only a matter of time before someone again looses their life because of the brain dead here.
A few morning ago I was driving into GT from eastern districts. It was school drop off time so the yellow 15mph lights were flashing. This was at Savannah Primary school. A driver in a Honda Accord (the imported from Japan model) overtook 4 cars and then forced his way into the proper lane while a male Officer was speaking to a driver that he had pulled over (no ticket book seen?). Meanwhile there are two overweight female Officers stood about 200 feet off the road next to one of two parked police cars, completely out of the line of sight of the roadway / approaching traffic, just stood there chatting. As if deciding where they would go for breakfast soon. Completely oblivious to the task at hand that they are being paid to do! Hopeless!
I started writing a short story about a year and half ago, it went something like this.
‘I used to ride a bike a lot, up to EEnd at the weekends, early in the mornings during the week, and back from work in the evenings.’
Please check my classified on ecay,
❌🚴🏼♂️ anymore, it’s f****** dangerous .
A statement and a simple question:
Kudos to the RCIPS for an above average tickets issued within a holiday period.
Why isn’t this level of vigilance the norm?
I was issued a ticket in December on Walkers Road while driving my wife’s car for the license being expired. I advised them that it was renewed in October and to just run the “new plate” to verify as I didn’t have the paperwork in the car. The officer said I was lying, and the car was not licensed, then issued me a ticket. First week in JANUARY I receive an email from licensing with the renewal certificate backdated to October. I take this to the Traffic Department who advised that the ticket was incorrectly issued but I had to spend the day in court fighting it, which would cost me $500 in lost pay so basically am forced to pay a ticket which was illegally issued. This is the state if our government departments.
Interesting, the similarities with the potential downsides of the Sexual Harrasment Bill are remarkable, – different office, same logic 🤷🏻♀️
good start. no double down and write more tickets. You keep catching people in that little spot in East End while everyone on the LPH is going 70 and not a cop in sight.
This should be every day not just on holiday weekends.
Witnessed not one but two luxury suvs in a row pass a chap on a scooter doing the speed limit on Church Street in ront of Fin and then continued to accelerate.
Neither driver was Jamaican. If some poor soul would have tried to pull out on the road, they would have been injured or killed due to their negligent driving.
Speed bumps NOW on Church Street!
how many cops were ticketed for not using indicators at roundabouts?
what hope is there when i have never seen a police car indicate correctly on a roundabout?…i’ve been here 25 years!
I was heading down LPH a couple of weeks ago. I was on a bike and admittedly speeding, not crazy but probably over 50.
I almost didn’t notice a police car in the left lane as it wasn’t illuminated with the blues on.
RCIPS,turn off the blue lights, you’d be so much more effective for traffic enforcement at least. If you want to keep them on in residential areas or bar checks, then do so, but on regular roads, turn them off!
The down votes must be from those who have never sped in their life!
Point remains the same. Turn off the blue beacons!
Those blue beacon lights are the silliest thing of late. Persons who are breaking the law and/or evading arrest warrants can see them coming from a mile away! The Police should be using more unmarked vehicles. And they should learn to drive properly, including indicating properly. I watched two different Police vehicles drive right on by cars with no lights at all on last night, though it was dark enough for street lights to be on.
So you broke the law and boast about it. Cool.
Anyone crash in to a light pole late at night and not get breathalysed?
It wasn’t my fault honest. The pole moved.
Me. I just called Wayne Pantsdown and he sorted it for me.
These JDF rejects stand up on the straightest highways to ticket people doing 52 mph instead of being where it actually matters.
The only time I’ve encountered a traffic police officer in Cayman is an expat who tried to ticket me in my own private property during covid.
Speed limits are laws. Obey them.
More stringent enforcement of traffic laws including speeding, excess window tinting, driving without a license and/or insurance.
The latter two need big consequences such as immediate expulsion from the Islands.
How many are Jamaicans ?
Poor driving habits aren’t a nationality. This anti-Jamaican racism and xenophobia really needs to stop. It’s not acceptable.
If it drives erratically and crashes uninsured vehicles like a duck…
The biggest problem with Jamaicans is they’ll never admit their people are wrong and always condone their bad behavior. most if the bad driving is them so it’s not xenophobia to say so and also Jamaica is not a race.
Unless it’s true and anyone can use their own eyes to see it.
No license or insurance are serious offenses. They should definitely keep deportation as an option. These things ruin lives when serious injuries are caused.
How do you expel a Caymanian ? You dufus.
When will our laws be updated to allow automated speed cameras to take over this activity?
They could be mobile units so positioning could be moved around. Maybe these devices could also pick up vehicles without front license plates which is against the law. Or those that still have old plates, unreadable plates, etc. They can even work at night.
Paying officers to conduct this activity is a waste of my tax money. Plus there is NO favouritism given.
Average speed cameras on highways and regular speed cameras elsewhere. Cameras can also pick up data from the plate; licence, insurance etc. place these at traffic lights. It’s really that simple. Allow resource police and cars etc. to go after serious, violent and organised crime. These must be the focus.
1:10, Paying people to enforce non payment of fines / penalties is also a waste of taxpayers money.
Taxpayers???
Yes taxpayers, everyone who lives here and consumes anything, which is everybody, is a taxpayer. If you don’t understand that basic concept there’s not a lot of hope for you.
Hahaha ‘if you don’t understand that basic concept… ‘ listen to Adam Smith (yeah, go and google him!). You CHOOSE what you spend and pay DUTY on. Tax systems and ‘taxpayers’ in the rest of the world are VERY different, where direct taxation occurs – read up on it. Stop making things up in an attempt to enforce your opinion. If we all get taxed why don’t we all get to vote? Taxation/representation. No hope!
I have read Adam Smith. In fact, I have a masters in Economics. And I can tell you that duty is a tax. Any form if indirect taxation is still taxation. And trying to argue duty is avoidable by changing spending habits- what a laugh. How are you going to avoid paying for the import duty on the fuel used to power CUC, or the water authority? Or the food in the supermarkets. Or the petrol in your car.
Oooh a masters in economics! You’ve not even heard of Adam and Eve, nevermind read Adam Smith. Duty is an in-direct tax, based on your choices. Your consumption of goods. That’s your responsibility.
It’s entirely different from direct taxation. Go and live in the US, Ireland or the UK and you’ll know all about being a taxpayer.
Well they bought the technology, RFID plates and presumably remote readers. All they would need is camera equipped readers. However history dictates that when implementing a solution CIG typically only buys the gun but skimps on the bullets or omits them altogether.
It’s as if they are scared of the outcome of a properly deployed technology. Why did CIG spend millions on implementing half the solution only to stop halfway? I guess it will take another decade or two, or at least as long as it did to get the new plates in full circulation before we might see licence plate infraction notices sent out via mail. Sigh.
1.10pm The problem with cameras doing the work is that they’ll pick up a vehicle but no-one will know the driver’s real name or address and the tickets will pile up at the Post Office until returned to DVDL. Therefore the only persons that will actually pay are a few non-Jamaican generally law abiding persons.
Easily solved in Canada if the tickets are unpaid, issue a warrant for the vehicle, tow and impound it until the owner pays regardless of who was driving. Cayman is small can’t be that hard to eventually find the vehicles either parked or on the road. Oh wait that requires some actual work by the RCIP.
Doesn’t matter who was driving. Owner is responsible for vehicle…
So, less than 20 tickets a day?
Why even publicise this? between regular uniform and traffic, this is what they achieved?
Hang about Old Man Bay, in the quietest of districts for a day and you’ll beat this!
the amount of crashes everyday tells you the real story of how the police farce are doing…
To be fair, it’s not RCIPS’s fault that DVDL give driving licenses to people who are simply incapable of driving safely at any speed.
Not DVDL’s fault either. The lack of personal responsibiliy as a driver and likely as a member of society is to blame and the devil may care driving is not exclusively contained to Jamaicans.
Who said Jamaicans?!?
6.44am Well 80% are from there and they still walking in DVDL every day to exchange licenses.
free money making solution:
bring in private run traffic police who are funded by fines.
cig will makes 10x times as much on fines.
police can then do real work or we can reduce their numbers.
win-win-win.
It would be the biggest cluster you’ve ever seen. People would drive off, they would be assaulted on a daily basis, there would be corruption issues. The police would then have to be brought in…
legal remedies to all of this….
and if you wear body cams you will have proof
NEXT!
Just saw a lovely silver Honda Accord with several productive looking individuals in, off Eastern Avenue if you can believe it. Windows down, music playing loudly, no license plate on the front, the fog lights were LED and set to cycle through blue, red, and green as though flashing.
I reckon there was at least $400+ in ticketable offenses right there. No seatbelts, lights that are not white/ yellow, and license plate not displayed correctly.
The driver wasn’t exactly being low profile, yet I bet he won’t be pulled over in the near future.
Only when there is a shady tree to stand over and never in the rain.
Operation Caymanian traffic ticket!
How many Jamaicans were prosecuted? asking for a friend on the cruise ship.
Country of origin isn’t asked for.
Stop always asking for a friend. 😡
Were any tickets issued at night when the most dangerous accidents happen?
not if the premiere turns up…..
shame on you wayne
You could have this amount of infractions ticketed in a single day if you got off your asses. Furthermore, nobody cares whether your year-end traffic ticket quotas are being met or not. Arrest actual criminals.
Agreed. They need to start using mobile Radar in their vehicles. The minute they sat up on the road side everyone starts blinking their lights at on coming traffic alerting them to Rdar ahead.
Still amazes me the Police vehicles all have Blue lights lit Day and Night on the roof. Any criminal with the smallest Brain sees them coming for blocks. Why do they have these lights on other then to Alert you they are in the area.
the police are emulating the safety car in a Grand Prix.
Blue Lights on with 20 cars following along behind, waiting for them to turn, so the racing can begin again.
They have mobile radars in their cars – that is the metal disc you see in the back window of the police cruiser in the picture accompanying this story.