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Zambia Police raise K 10 million in Traffic fines in the first quarter of 2018

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Police Spokesperson Esther Katongo
Police Spokesperson Esther Katongo

THE Zambia police service says it raised K10,176,530 in Admission of Guilt fines during the first quarter of 2018.

Last year, the police service raised K10,265,250 from Admission of Guilt fines in the same period last year.

And police in the same period under review recorded 396 deaths from road traffic accidents compared to 480 deaths recorded in the first quarter of 2017.

Police Public Relations Manager Esther Katongo has said in a statement.

“During the first quarter of 2018, a total number of 7,247 road traffic accidents were recorded compared to 7, 068 recorded in 2017, indicating an increase by 179 road traffic accidents,” Katongo said.

She said the number of people who died in road accidents in the first quarter has decreased by 84 from the total number recorder under the same period last year.
Meanwhile, Katongo said 673 persons were seriously injured while 1,960 persons sustained minor.

And Katongo said the service recorded 3,503 total numbers of casualties in the same period under review.

She said Lusaka Province recorded the highest number of accidents with 3,822 accidents with 106 deaths, followed by Copperbelt with 1,199 accidents with 89 deaths while Central ranked third with 460 accidents with 43 deaths.

22 COMMENTS

    • How much was earned by Policemen and how much of that was shared with Higher brass in the Police Force?

    • The purpose of fines should be to promote road safety, not to be a so-called “important source” of government funding! If only the police cared for things like headlights and breaks (…or maybe even for drunk and reckless driving?) as much as they do for the date on your license disk that would be something to applaud.

    • NOT FOR PROFIT MAKING – RENAME YOURSELVES AS POLICE BUSINESS CENTRE.
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      It should be a service not profit making. Soon you will start setting targets. Only then will we realize that you will have drifted from your primary duties. Honest service to the people. Why should ZAMPOST be making losses and POLICE profits. Something has gone wrong here.

    • Not an income to be proud of. If the money from bus drivers which is unremitted was to be added the total was going to be 3 times higher.

    • Fraudulent ATMs by the roadside!!

      Revenue dropped from K10,265,250 in Q1 2017 to K10,176,530 in Q1 2018. Yet accidents increased signifying no improvement in highway code compliance. Vehicles also increased and beautiful roads quadrupled.

      These are things Auditor General should cite not the meaningless expenditure without invoices and supporting documents as if anyone does not lose receipts.

  1. The way we know traffic police officers,this is just one third of the money they raised because two thirds, if not more went into their pockets!!
    ZP traffic section is the most corrupt Govnt department in Zambia!!
    However,congrats as K10 million is better than nothing!!

  2. This report is useless. What about statistics about house break ins, car thefts, rape, GBV, armed robberies etc including how many cops have been dismissed for crimes in uniform. Anyway, it’s a reflection of how useless our police is.

  3. Equip all traffic police cars with receipt generating computers and officers with body cameras. Then you’ll be sure of what you’re collecting. I know this is a tall order but with what you have ” managed to grab ” it’s not impossible.

  4. That collection must be reflected against the lawlessness prevalent and a need to re-examine some laws with a view to make them responsive to the modern times. 80 km/h speed limit on a highway is just a pretext to collect fines; and so is reflector stickers on modern cars (there has to be a cutoff; modern cars scream reflector wherever one looks). Just a few examples that makes the police collect fines by false pretenses…

  5. This smells a fish. If the Traffic section of ZPS can raise K10.176m in just three months then one wonders how much goes into some officers pockets. No wonder calls to minimize road blocks had fallen on deaf ears. We also want to be told the number of officers who have been charged for various offences during the same period and what type action was taken. It would further be interesting if Madam Katongo could be giving statistics of say 1200 persons were arrested for offences such as and these were charged. such number were convicted and 400 were acquitted. Break down the statistics according to provinces and districts. We don’t just want to hear the number of accidents and victims. This will make the general public be aware and take precautions when in certain areas of Zambia.

  6. We have the police in the nation not raise funds but protect citizens. The fines are a form of punishment to deter the would be offenders and not to raise revenue. The police are entirely funded by tax payers to get protection from them and their property and not through fines and same goes to our courts of law. If we are raising more funds from traffic offences that should be our source of worry. It means there are more traffic offences being committed and people are not obeying traffic rules. It should prompt us to put measures in place to prevent more traffic offences instead of getting excited about figures that add nothing to our erring economy.

  7. Raises 10 Million kwacha that is only 1/10 of the amount they have taken from people .
    I would suggest that the government contracts an independent company to do the road traffict section you will see how they will make money and people will happy .
    Our road traffic officers are corrupt to the borne .

  8. The traffic section is so corrupt we need to start making theses traffic fines at the banks like most schools and colleges have done. We have heard of daily cash targets by these traffic cops.

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