YOU DON'T NEED A FINE THIS BIG!!

This is an example of a fine generated by camera systems installed in fixed locations.

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SA Drivers being harassed by police in other states

SA drivers are being harassed by police in other states for not having registration stickers.

Motorists have reported being fined for not displaying stickers when pulled over by police in other states.

In one case, a South Australian driver said they were forced to leave their car in Victoria and fly home to collect registration papers.

The State Government introduced the measure on July 1 as part of a cost-cutting exercise.

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Safe-T cameras catch 26,000 rego dodgers in SA

MORE than 2000 drivers a month are being caught driving uninsured and unregistered vehicles.

Figures obtained by The Advertiser showed the number of unregistered vehicles caught by the Transport Department's 11 Safe-T-Cams has nearly doubled in the past year, jumping from 14,500 to 26,098.

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Call to reinstate car rego stickers

Pauline Fuit... son just avoided being ‘ridiculously penalised’. Picture: Neil Mulligan

A WAIKIKI woman whose son narrowly avoided a criminal charge due to a mix-up with his car’s registration has called for the reinstatement of registration stickers.

Pauline Fuit echoed concerns reported in the Courier earlier this year, after WA Police figures revealed the number of unregistered vehicles had almost doubled after the Department of Transport decided to stop issuing them.

Ms Fuit said her son avoided being “ridiculously penalised on a criminal offence charge”, despite measures now underway to reclassify a car’s lapsed registration as a traffic offence under the transport department’s jurisdiction, and not WA Police.

“He (her son) had to attend Juvenile Justice and the matter appears to be resolved without penalty, and a letter addressed to the court outlining his understanding of the seriousness of the offence was required,” she said.

“The new system is not working and I reiterate, is a fundraising exercise for the government. The Motor Trade Association and 6PR aired the issue and were swamped with calls from drivers who had unwittingly been caught out.”

A spokeswoman for Transport Minister Troy Buswell said the government did not intend to reintroduce registration stickers for light vehicles.

“Registration labels were being used only as an indicator of a vehicle’s licence for law enforcement purposes,” she said.

“WA Police now have the technology to check a vehicle’s licence status immediately, using the number plate details.”

Car licensing rules clog up courts, waste police time

Click HERE to view front page article that appeared in the Great Southern WA newspaper, the Albany Advertiser on Tuesday 2^nd August 2011.

There has been dramatic rise in the number of unlicensed vehicle offenses being processed through courts in the Great Southern. Figures show almost 300 people were charged with driving unregistered vehicles between January 1 and July 28 this year compared to just 130 in all of 2009. The increase comes less than two years after the State Government overhauled requirements for motorists to exhibit registration stickers on their vehicles. The move in January 2010 was trumpeted as one which would create a more efficient licensing system. But lawyers and prosecutors agree the considerable leap in offences, which are required to be dealt with by magistrates courts, could be more effectively dealt with if registration legislation was changed.