{"id":37177,"date":"2019-01-31T13:53:57","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T05:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/?p=37177"},"modified":"2019-01-31T13:53:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T05:53:57","slug":"no-more-discounts-traffic-summonses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/no-more-discounts-traffic-summonses","title":{"rendered":"Transport Minister: Police To Stop Offering Discounts For Traffic Summonses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Transport minister Anthony Loke will speak to the police and local councils about stopping the practice of giving discounts for traffic summonses.<\/p>\n<p>According to Loke, the Road Transport Department under his ministry has already stopped all future plans for discounts. He is hoping that the other authorities will follow suit.<\/p>\n<p>The minister believes that offering discounts on fines and summonses sends the wrong message to road users. Going on to explain that people are more likely to take traffic laws seriously if they are required to pay the penalties in full.<\/p>\n<p>Loke also said that he is aware of the criticism he is facing due to\u00a0the decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t care if people get angry with me or say that we are cruel.\u00a0I will be firm in my decision, and have told JPJ not to give any more discounts,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Some 15,000 enforcement personnel will be on duty during the Chinese New Year period from 29 January until 12 February.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/nation\/2019\/01\/30\/loke-stop-giving-discounts-police-and-local-authorities-told-not-to-lower-traffic-summonses\/\" target=\"_blank\">[Source]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giving discounts sends the wrong message to road users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":35403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[378],"class_list":["post-37177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-updates","tag-jpj"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Government To Stop Offering Discounts On Traffic Summonses<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The transport ministry will talk to police and local councils about ending discount campaigns. 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