NewsWhore
09-18-2008, 04:30 PM
In the past two years the Metropolitan Transport Police (AMET) office has announced a series of costly measures aimed at modernizing the institution, increasing efficiency and reducing the number of traffic offenders. But few objectives have been accomplished, despite hefty investments. Diario Libre reminds readers about the purchase of 1,200 automatic ticket machines costing RD$31 million. The machines were supposed to register a driver's information and send it to a database for storage. But a drive around Santo Domingo shows that officers are still using pens and paper to write tickets. Some 300 machines were originally received in 2006, and previous AMET director Jose Sigfrido Fernandez Fadul said at the time that they would put AMET on the same level as transit cops in New York and Miami. The failure of AMET's modernization also includes the inability of the body to implement breathalyzer tests, which quickly disappeared from Dominican roads in 2007, despite another costly purchase at taxpayers expense.
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