Cloned number plates causing e-toll problems

2012 said:
You just implied that these guys are making illegal plates, time for an undercover sting.
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As if the police has no rapists, armed robbers or murderers to chase down...
 
the photo should validate if your car's license plate was cloned, if its a completely different model car as whats legally registered to the number... but the photos arent that great, ... if somebody with a similar car, and even color as yours clone your plate, i'm guessing its gonna be quite a bits to prove its not you?

while i dont condone people cloning other people's plates.... there are these black luxury cars with blue lights, hogging the highways every so often.... we wont mind if u clone their numbers :D
 
supersunbird said:
Not your best post ever. As if armed robbers drive cars with their own number plates on... they love false plates.
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Well this is it really, I hope those who clone plates realise that hardened criminals do the same thing.

Rather drive without any number plates on, at least innocent people aren't inconvenienced by your criminal activity.
 
skimread said:
Why don't they use e-tolls for something useful like finding illegal activities like speeding fines and finding clone number plates.

Once an illegal numberplate passes they notify a cop car parked further ahead.

It's like they decide to reward people who commit illegal activities and punish those who obey the law. Politicians also don't want their family members in the newspapers.
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No!!! That is a step to tyranny.

eToll gantries are part of a taxation system, and an unjust one at that.

Under no circumstances should it become an extension of the police. The police should have their own systems that are effective and managed according to the protocols of ordinary policing.

There's a basic principle at stake in this.
 
supersunbird said:
Not your best post ever. As if armed robbers drive cars with their own number plates on... they love false plates.
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What I probably failed to get across is that there are far more serious crimes to address. But yes, start with the simple things and work to bigger stuff. ATM the SAPS does very little, or succeed at solving very few reported crimes, and many are not reported..
 
Allin said:
What I probably failed to get across is that there are far more serious crimes to address. But yes, start with the simple things and work to bigger stuff. ATM the SAPS does very little, or succeed at solving very few reported crimes, and many are not reported..
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Yes, there are bigger things to deal with but there are times they have to wait for cases etc. Also, there are less experience guys and some juniors that can use these less dangerous and serious cases to get some real life training in a relatively safe case.

This "there are more serious crimes" is such a weak argument.
 
Fudzy said:
Well this is it really, I hope those who clone plates realise that hardened criminals do the same thing.

Rather drive without any number plates on, at least innocent people aren't inconvenienced by your criminal activity.
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No number plates draw police and security company and neighbourhood watch attention on anything that isn't brand new
 
RFID technology should be installed in vehicles for identification and not just for tolling.
 
Dump the lot

Number plates and vehicle registration should be eliminated entirely. For almost all practical purposes, they are useless. If car bashing bikers don't need number plates, why should they know whom they are bashing? Having a vehicle registered does nothing to improve its safety. Having only law abiding citizens publish their identity is futile.
 
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Allin said:
There is a very simple system to get money for roads. It is called a fuel levy.
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Some calculations were done at an earlier stage.... a 30c fuel levy (paid by only Gautengers iir, aka about 1m vehicles) would have paid off the highway upgrades in a month or two.
 
If your number plate is upside down, can those cameras read it? If not, turn your plates around. Nothing says they must be the right way round. That way, each pic has to be manually reviewed.
 
chrisc4290 said:
Since 2004 I have had regular visits from the SAPS and summons-servers about my "taxi" which has the same CA number plates as my wife's Jetta. Each time they come along to deliver a summons or to find out why I have not paid a fine, so I now keep colour photocopies of the original registration which is demanded. I have seen pictures of this, it used to be a Toyota hi-ace and now is a Quantum. When I suggest that since the said taxi has been spotted at the corner of AZ Berman and Imperial Street and Swartklip Road (this is in Mitchell's Plain) at least 9 times during 2013, it might be an idea to look down Imperial Street which is not a long street, I get a funny look as if not to tell them how to do their jobs.
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You could do that for them and identify the culprit yourself, so that next time they visit you, you can show them the *****er and then ask them to do their job and arrest the b*stard.
 
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