25% Of Motorists Demanded To Pay Bribes To Traffic Police

[sassienie]

This practise of traffic corruption by the police has been going on since the invention of the wheel.

Answer is: Don`t break the law.

[AsiaMB]

WHAT A LOAD OF CRAP>>>>>>> ITS MORE LIKE 90 PER CENT>>>> POLICE ARE TOTALLY CORRUPT !!!!!!

One fourth motorists used to be demanded to pay bribe to traffic police: survey

BANGKOK: -- Twenty-five per cent of motorists in Bangkok and 11 other provinces used to be demanded to pay bribe by traffic polices manning road checkpoints, an opinion survey has found.

The survey was carried out among 2,228 people in Bangkok and 11 other provinces from March 26 to April 4 by Abac Poll of Assumption University.

The 11 others provinces are Ayutthaya, Chanthaburi, Surin, Ubon Ratchathani, Khon Kaen, Udon Thani, Chiang Mai, Sukhothai, Ratchaburi, Nakhon Si Thammarat, and Songkhla.

The survey found that 25 per cent of respondents said they used to be asked by police manning road checkpoints to give them money for traffic offences in exchange for paying traffic fines to the stat. The rest of the respondents said they have never encountered such incident.

-- The Nation 2009-04-05