{"id":357643,"date":"2019-11-27T12:31:58","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T10:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=357643"},"modified":"2019-11-27T12:35:42","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T10:35:42","slug":"south-african-drivers-have-a-right-to-ask-cops-for-id-when-they-get-pulled-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/motoring\/357643\/south-african-drivers-have-a-right-to-ask-cops-for-id-when-they-get-pulled-over\/","title":{"rendered":"South African drivers have a right to ask cops for ID when they get pulled over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of Transport, Fikile Mbalula, says he has noted a social media video of a member of the public requesting to be shown identification by traffic law enforcement officers.<\/p>\n<p>In the video, an unidentified member of the public is heard requesting names of two Tshwane Metropolitan Police Department officers, who drove off after a short verbal interaction.<\/p>\n<p>Mbalula commended the member of the public for holding traffic officers to account and warned against abuse of power.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">When will <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TMPDSafety?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TMPDSafety<\/a> start ensuring that all metro cops display their name tags? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MbalulaFikile?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MbalulaFikile<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GTP_Traffstats?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GTP_Traffstats<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GP_CommSafety?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GP_CommSafety<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TrafficRTMC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TrafficRTMC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qYERauWxEA\">pic.twitter.com\/qYERauWxEA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Yusuf Abramjee (@Abramjee) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Abramjee\/status\/1199224964076974082?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 26, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Over the next few days, I will launch our Festive Season Road Safety programme. This programme falls within our 365 Road Safety campaign.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Through this, we will be conducting law enforcement operations as well as road safety education and awareness throughout the country. Section 3A subsection 7 of the National Road Traffic Act provides for traffic officer to be identifiable.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our law enforcement officers are expected to carry their duties professionally within the ambits of our laws,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mbalula said that the National Road Traffic Act provides for traffic officers to be identifiable and members of the public are entitled to request identification or appointment certificates.<\/p>\n<p>These measures are put in place to guard against abuse of power and corruption, he said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the\u00a0Criminal Procedure Act stipulates that an officer who cannot or will not provide such identification is in violation of the Act.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Likewise, when a member of the public is stopped by traffic officers, they are obliged to give their names and addresses when requested.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are many law enforcement officers who do their jobs diligently with professionalism and dedication.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is these officers who keep our roads safe and ensure we arrive alive at our homes and places of work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/motoring\/356881\/government-looking-at-changes-to-south-african-speed-limits-and-drunk-driving-laws\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Government looking at changes to South African speed limits and drunk driving laws<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of Transport, Fikile Mbalula, says he has noted a social media video of a member of the public requesting to be shown identification by traffic law enforcement officers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":299672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11119],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-357643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motoring","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357643"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357659,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357643\/revisions\/357659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}