The Justice ministry has delivered a scathing indictment of the system used by the police to record traffic tickets issued to motorists, revealing publicly that there are “deficits in the accuracy and adequacy” of information sent to the courts, causing some judges not to issue arrest warrants for delinquent drivers.

The criticism of the Traffic Ticket Management System (TTMS) unfolded before a parliamentary committee yesterday even as a senior police commander touted the over four million traffic tickets issued by cops in the last 10 years raking in over $8 billion in fines for the Government.

Officials from the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of National Security, and high-ranking police officers from the Public Safety and Traffic Enforcement Branch (PSTEB) were summoned to appear before the Public Administration and Appropriations Committee (PAAC) to explain how hundreds of motorists were able to ignore close to 90 per cent of the over 65,000 traffic tickets issued by the police in the first half of last year without any consequences.

Dr Denarto Dennis, senior court statistician employed by the Ministry of Justice, told lawmakers on the PAAC that there are “deficits in the accuracy and adequacy” updates made to the TTMS and transmitted to the court system.

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