MORE than 78,000 tickets have been issued for traffic breaches and over 1,600 motor vehicles seized under ‘Operation Zero Tolerance’, a joint initiative rolled out in May by the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) and the Island Traffic Authority (ITA) targeting wayward road users.
The disclosure was made yesterday by head of the JCF’s Traffic Division, Senior Superintendent (SSP) Calvin Allen, as he gave an update on the programme at a press conference at the Office of the Police Commissioner in St Andrew.
“There have been over 300 motorcycles seized, over 400 arrests have been made and some 609 offensive weapons have been removed from the streets. We are aware also of the challenges we have with motorcycles on the road and almost 1,000 prosecutions have been done for the non-wearing of protective helmets,” SSP Allen told journalists.
“Critically all of what we have been doing comes back to the most dominant item on our roadways: road fatalities. What has happened since, in a very encouraging way for the first time in over two-and-a-half years, we are seeing where road fatalities for the current year is behind the previous year, to date, 205 last year as against 197 this year, we are eight behind in terms of fatalities,” he continued.
