Bangkok police have decided to stop conducting daytime checkpoints during to help deal with traffic on major thoroughfares.
Pol Maj Gen Worasak Nopsitthiporn, in charge of traffic affairs, explained that checkpoints will now be conducted only after 9pm. Police will also limit the checkpoints at night to just one per road .
Police officers at checkpoints are supposed to make sure drivers aren’t under the influence, cutting, racing, or using illegal license plates.
Pol Maj Gen Worasak stressed however, that license plate violations will be tolerated due to the current shortage.
However, the traffic services chief said that since the number of checkpoints have been decreased, the police will be utilizing traffic volunteers and traffic cameras as well as pen cameras and button cameras to monitor traffic violations.
Warning tickets will be issued for minor traffic offenses, while heavier fines will be applied to repeat offenders, the Bangkok Post reported.
