Over 5,000 wrong tickets issued by Dubai Police

The traffic police chief said that Dubai’s traffic police has issued more than 5,200 wrong traffic tickets against drivers in the first half of 2013 but cancelled them all.

Major General Mohammed Saif Al Zafeen also said that investigators have also found nearly 4,200 attempts by drivers to evade payment of fines by hiding part of their vehicle plate numbers.

“We have found that 5,260 tickets issued by the traffic police in the first half of this year were wrong. We have immediately corrected them,” he said.

He mentioned that some tickets were issued against cars parked on the hard shoulder of the road, and added: “The policeman who issued that ticket mentioned unjustified illegal parking without bothering asking the driver, but after the driver complained about it, we found that he parked his car there after his wife suffered from a sudden illness.”

“We have also found that some policemen abuse their authority and we continuously try to create awareness and educate them,” he said.