Dear Editor,
I must make a comment on the letter headlined "Unhappy with remarks by SSP Lewis" of Thursday, January 3, 2013, and even go further with a word of advice.
It is very unjust for those motorists, like myself, who make good in paying the fine(s) on traffic ticket(s) received before September 21, 2010, through the relevant tax offices and/or the requisite island courts, to again be inconvenienced to take time from our normal daily activities to visit those tax officees or island courts to gather information or copies of payment receipts.
I would like to ask what role does the Public Defender and/or human rights activists play in matters like these, or are they among those who sit idly by and wait for public disorder. I would also like to encourage SSP Lewis to wait on the updating and reconciliation of database by the Ministry of National Security, the Tax Administration Jamaica and the courts to determine the accuracy of claims by individuals of traffic fine paid still be showed as unpaid, before making public announcements of threat of prosecution.
A word of advice to the Jamaica Constabulary Force/Government of Jamaica: invest those millions collected from the traffic ticket amnesty in a state-of-the-art system that will link all requisite collections agencies of the country's revenues.
This is a wake-up call for public officials to seriously look into the country's database systems, as these inaccuarcies mean that the country is lagging far behind in the use of technology.
Concerned Citizen
A word to SSP Lewis
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I must make a comment on the letter headlined "Unhappy with remarks by SSP Lewis" of Thursday, January 3, 2013, and even go further with a word of advice.
It is very unjust for those motorists, like myself, who make good in paying the fine(s) on traffic ticket(s) received before September 21, 2010, through the relevant tax offices and/or the requisite island courts, to again be inconvenienced to take time from our normal daily activities to visit those tax officees or island courts to gather information or copies of payment receipts.
I would like to ask what role does the Public Defender and/or human rights activists play in matters like these, or are they among those who sit idly by and wait for public disorder. I would also like to encourage SSP Lewis to wait on the updating and reconciliation of database by the Ministry of National Security, the Tax Administration Jamaica and the courts to determine the accuracy of claims by individuals of traffic fine paid still be showed as unpaid, before making public announcements of threat of prosecution.
A word of advice to the Jamaica Constabulary Force/Government of Jamaica: invest those millions collected from the traffic ticket amnesty in a state-of-the-art system that will link all requisite collections agencies of the country's revenues.
This is a wake-up call for public officials to seriously look into the country's database systems, as these inaccuarcies mean that the country is lagging far behind in the use of technology.
Concerned Citizen
A word to SSP Lewis
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