Motorists who received fines from the JMPD via ordinary mail between August 2010 and December 21, 2012 can apply to have them cancelled.<\/p>\n
“Motorists may apply for cancellation and the city will cancel those fines,” Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department (JMPD) Director Gerrie Gernicke told reporters on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Motorists could fill in an Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences (Aarto) representation form found on the Aarto website or at any JMPD office.<\/p>\n
Gernicke said members of the public who had already paid fines received by ordinary mail were not entitled to a refund.<\/p>\n
“When you pay a fine, you have pleaded guilty to that fine… the public protector made a specific finding that no money would be reimbursed where people have paid an admission of guilt and paid their fines.”<\/p>\n
Gernicke said the JMPD had complied with the public protector’s proposed remedial action for issuing infringement notices via ordinary mail instead of registered mail.<\/p>\n
“JMPD has subsequently placed an apology in eight mainstream newspapers circulating in Johannesburg,” he said.<\/p>\n
On December 18, Public Protector Thuli Madonsela said in a report the JMPD acted improperly when it sent fines by ordinary post instead of registered mail.<\/p>\n
Gernicke warned the public and businesses to be aware of runners who asked for money to cancel fines on their behalf.<\/p>\n
“The public must be very, very aware, because there are runners who are going to big companies and saying you’ve got R10,000 of fines outstanding, I can cancel those fines for R5000.<\/p>\n
“They pay, not knowing the details and in fact those runners just put in a representation and the R10,000 is cancelled and they pocket the R5000 for themselves.”<\/p>\n
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