South African Police Service
Dubious means of collecting revenues

On Race Course Road's end of the M5, upon joining the M5, I was immediately greeted with a traffic pile-up, cars were paralysed and standing still barely crawling, the time was 12PM, drivers on that lane who could not see for miles and some assumed the worse such as "did a truck overturned? ", "was there an accident", some of us lost patience and made a U-Turn crossing the island strip in order to back track and find an alternative route, now instead of the police standing on the Island to support their reason for being there in the first place, they were standing on the opposite lane of the highway so that they could stop what they deemed as "offenders" making U-Turns. What dirty tactics are these? I received a R1000 fine because my crime was to not have known what was going on on the other end of the highway and not complying with the dead traffic? Of course I followed my instinct to make a U-Turn with no intent to break the law, anyone running low on petrol would have done so! Surprisingly, what the police man issuing the fine had revealed was that there was a road block! Your dubious means of collecting revenues by causing traffic jams through road blocks must not go unnoticed!

Company: South African Police Service
Country: South Africa
City: Cape Town

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