PADANG BESAR: The Operation for Foreigners' Outstanding Summonses (OSTWA) carried out at the Padang Besar Immigration, Customs, Quarantine and Security Complex (ICQS) successfully collected compounds totalling RM44,730 within five days of its implementation starting on July 21.
Padang Besar district police chief ACP Mohd Shokri Abdullah said the operation involved the cooperation of the Traffic Investigation and Enforcement Division of the Padang Besar district police headquarters (IPD) and the Traffic Investigation and Enforcement Department of the Perlis police contingent headquarters (IPK).
"A total of 27 officers and personnel were involved in this operation targeting foreigners with outstanding traffic summonses. A total of 420 vehicles belonging to foreigners were inspected and as a result, 299 summonses for various offences were successfully resolved," he said at a press conference at the entrance and exit of the Padang Besar ICQS here Friday (July 25).
According to Mohd Shokri, the outstanding summonses that were successfully resolved included driving over the speed limit involving 237 summonses, registration number not in compliance with regulations (25 summonses), not complying with permit conditions (17 summonses) and no driving license and several other offences (20 summonses).
He said the highest collection of outstanding summonses involved a van owned by a foreigner which had 36 outstanding summonses worth RM5,780 which were fully resolved at the operation location.
Meanwhile, Mohd Shokri said that from January to July this year, the Padang Besar IPD recorded 5,027 traffic summonses with 1,899 of the total having been successfully resolved, involving the total collection of summonses payment proceeds to date totalling RM183,230. - Bernama
