Traffic cop confiscated wifes DL. what to do now?

[ghworker2010]

Our youngster put white tape over the province name on the front of our number plate. The wife was driving my car and an aggressive cop asked her to stop. She said the guy was dramatizing the situation- as if she had murdered someone. He took her DL and said she had to take the paperwork to the local police station to pay within 10 days. She was on the way to bkk and now the 10 days has expired. 

 

I don't work and am proposing to drive there using google maps. What is the 10 day limit for? Will they let me pay and collect her DL? I will take a letter from her. 

 

Why is this such an old school country system where one has to front up to some police station in the sticks. Cant they computerize the bloody fines....

 

Next time does she legally have to hand over her DL? Come to think of it... if she were to download that app and show the DL details on the legal app then this problem is alleviated is it not?

 

thanks

[cornishcarlos]

Just buy her another DL, job done...

Oh and take the white tape off the number plate !!

[giddyup]

Why cover the province name?

[ukrules]

I wonder what would happen if she said she doesn't have a license with here - they certainly couldn't take it off her.

[ghworker2010]

1 hour ago, giddyup said:

Why cover the province name?

read above. our child did it.

[geoffbezoz]

2 minutes ago, ukrules said:

I wonder what would happen if she said she doesn't have a license with here - they certainly couldn't take it off her.

And most don't

[richard_smith237]

3 hours ago, ghworker2010 said:

Why is this such an old school country system where one has to front up to some police station in the sticks. Cant they computerize the bloody fines....

 

It's been reported that the system is being modernized. 

 

 

 

The Traffic Policeman was probably trying to 'inflate' an on the spot fine (otherwise known as extortion), your wife clearly wasn't playing ball and ended up with an official fine. 

 

Its too much of a headache to pay the fine your wife can get away with just applying for a new licence saying she's lost the old one.

[NanLaew]

11 hours ago, ukrules said:

I wonder what would happen if she said she doesn't have a license with here - they certainly couldn't take it off her.

They would probably just give her more grief by making further aggravated and unfounded threats including seizing the car... before ultimately issuing another ticket and letting her go which is all they are legally bound to do anyway.

[NanLaew]

13 hours ago, ghworker2010 said:

Why is this such an old school country system where one has to front up to some police station in the sticks. Cant they computerize the bloody fines....

That is coming with automated speed cameras and tickets in the post. In fact there's a growing TV demographic that are appalled at this wesetrnization of the traffic violation penalty system and seem quite happy with the 'pay-as-you-go' system of yore. As for being ticketed for not having a license, maybe that too is a (slower) work in progress. However, don't expect the average plod in Nakhon Nowhere getting 'online' any time soon so keep 4 x 100 baht notes neatly folded and tucked away in the sun visor.

Edited July 9, 2019 by NanLaew

[Kwasaki]

16 hours ago, ghworker2010 said:

He took her DL and said she had to take the paperwork to the local police station to pay within 10 days. She was on the way to bkk and now the 10 days has expired. 

Go to local police station wherever it is be apologetic and pay up and get the DL back, fine is probably double now that's all there's no need to make a drama of some unreasonable cop behaviour into a crisis.

I was late one time paying a fine at a police station gave a lame explaination apologized and paid the 200 baht no increase.

[PatOngo]

Just go to the police station and BUY it back!.....that's all the grubs want you to do!

 

 

Edited July 9, 2019 by PatOngo

[dotpoom]

16 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

 

It's been reported that the system is being modernized. 

 

 

 

The Traffic Policeman was probably trying to 'inflate' an on the spot fine (otherwise known as extortion), your wife clearly wasn't playing ball and ended up with an official fine. 

 

Its too much of a headache to pay the fine your wife can get away with just applying for a new licence saying she's lost the old one.

Would she not have to get a report from the police stating it was lost....wouldn't take them long to discover it wasn't.

  PS...don't all police stations around the globe have a similar amount of time to come to the police station to report ...for whatever...produce your DL...Tax...Insurance ..etc.,?

[richard_smith237]

9 minutes ago, dotpoom said:

Would she not have to get a report from the police stating it was lost....wouldn't take them long to discover it wasn't.

  PS...don't all police stations around the globe have a similar amount of time to come to the police station to report ...for whatever...produce your DL...Tax...Insurance ..etc.,?

It is no longer a requirement for a Thai to have a police report to replace a lost driving license. 

That’s so for Bangkok when my Wife got her replacement DL last year (this may differ for different DLT areas).

 

In the UK we used to have what’s called a ‘producer’ whereby if you were stopped by the police and didn’t have your driving license you had 7 days to go to your nearest police station & present your license. 

 

[Just Weird]

3 hours ago, Kwasaki said:

Go to local police station wherever it is be apologetic and pay up and get the DL back, fine is probably double now that's all there's no need to make a drama of some unreasonable cop behaviour into a crisis.

I was late one time paying a fine at a police station gave a lame explaination apologized and paid the 200 baht no increase.

"...there's no need to make a drama of some unreasonable cop behaviour into a crisis".

What's so "unreasonable" about issuing a ticket to someone driving with a disguised registration number?

[legend49]

Drive without one like most thais.

[Just Weird]

3 hours ago, PatOngo said:

Just go to the police station and BUY it back!.....that's all the grubs want you to do!

It's called paying the fine for an officially issued ticked, there will be nothing to pay for the licence.

[richard_smith237]

3 hours ago, PatOngo said:

Just go to the police station and BUY it back!.....that's all the grubs want you to do!

 

 

In reading the Op the police stop was not near their home, thus ‘popping’ into the station to pay the fine and collect the licence is not really an option. 

[Just Weird]

20 hours ago, ghworker2010 said:

Why is this such an old school country system where one has to front up to some police station in the sticks.

You don't have to do that, next time she just has to tell the officer where she wants to pay the fine and collect the licence from.  I got a ticket in Khon Kaen, paid and got my licence back in a Bangkok police station that I nominated.

Edited July 9, 2019 by Just Weird

[pi2005ni]

Don’t understand some of the comments, offence was committed and a fine was issued . Just a matter of paying the fine . It’s Thailand so wouldn’t worry about the time limit too much .

[Kwasaki]

1 hour ago, Just Weird said:

"...there's no need to make a drama of some unreasonable cop behaviour into a crisis".

What's so "unreasonable" about issuing a ticket to someone driving with a disguised registration number?

Answer:- Petty and easy to reasonably explain.

[PatOngo]

2 hours ago, Just Weird said:

It's called paying the fine for an officially issued ticked, there will be nothing to pay for the licence.

On the spot negotiation has always worked for me.

[NoshowJones]

"Cant they computerize the bloody fines...."

 

Thais and computers are not compatable, why do you think everything around Thais involves mountains of paperwork? If all the people working at immigration, police. DLT, and all the other Thai offices were computer literate, well you know...............

[Chazar]

22 hours ago, giddyup said:

Why cover the province name?

why do they even have to have it?.............more ridiculous nonsense

[metisdead]

Some trolling posts and bickering posts and replies have been removed. 

[moe666]

9 hours ago, NanLaew said:

That is coming with automated speed cameras and tickets in the post. In fact there's a growing TV demographic that are appalled at this wesetrnization of the traffic violation penalty system and seem quite happy with the 'pay-as-you-go' system of yore. As for being ticketed for not having a license, maybe that too is a (slower) work in progress. However, don't expect the average plod in Nakhon Nowhere getting 'online' any time soon so keep 4 x 100 baht notes neatly folded and tucked away in the sun visor.

NanLaew where have you been sleeping, they already have the cameras and the fine sent to your house unless they have set up a road block. Then they get you on radar and send your car photo to a cell phone at the road block pull you over 400b please but that isn't me heheheh good luck with that

[giddyup]

22 minutes ago, Chazar said:

why do they even have to have it?.............more ridiculous nonsense

Most states in the US show on the number plates, as it does in Australia as well.

[scorecard]

21 hours ago, ghworker2010 said:

read above. our child did it.

Yes, but I'm assuming you asked your child why, the reason could be interesting.

[GTgrizzly]

3 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

It is no longer a requirement for a Thai to have a police report to replace a lost driving license. 

That’s so for Bangkok when my Wife got her replacement DL last year (this may differ for different DLT areas).

 

In the UK we used to have what’s called a ‘producer’ whereby if you were stopped by the police and didn’t have your driving license you had 7 days to go to your nearest police station & present your license. 

 

In Auss its an offence to not carry your license with you

If you get a nasty cop he can give you a fine for same

[GTgrizzly]

I got booked last week for going the wrong way down a one way street ( maybe because I was a farang )

He took my license and commandeered my bike, wouldn't give either of them back until I cam back with a receipt to show that I had paid the fine

[NanLaew]

2 hours ago, moe666 said:

NanLaew where have you been sleeping, they already have the cameras and the fine sent to your house unless they have set up a road block. Then they get you on radar and send your car photo to a cell phone at the road block pull you over 400b please but that isn't me heheheh good luck with that

Since you're asking, Loei. They've got none of the stuff yet, hence my correct assertion that for the greater part of the country, it's still coming.

 

I've been a victim of hand-held radar extortion on the Mitrapharp but was happy to see the overhead, automated speed cams north of Khon Kaen... maybe 5 years already? Got a speeding ticket in the post after belting down the Suvarnabhumi access road (Mrs NL slept in and almost missed her flight!) a few years back so yes, you are right, it's more common but it's far, far from everywhere.