No double standard, so police car clamped – PPj
PUTRAJAYA: The Putrajaya Corporation (PPj) yesterday explained that a police patrol car was subjected to wheel-clamping here on Wednesday to show there was no double standard in enforcement.
PPj enforcement division director Muhamad Irwan Abdullah said wheel-clamping was a procedural action of the PPj enforcement division under Section 48 of the Road Transport Act 1987 for obstruction of traffic.
“The wheel-clamping is one of the efforts to educate the people and prevent them from continuing to commit traffic offences that will hamper urban well-being and pose a hindrance to the public,” he said in a statement.
He was commenting on a photograph of a wheelclamped police patrol car near Menara Usahawan here that went viral on social media on Wednesday.
Muhamad Irwan explained that a PPJ enforcement team on patrol found the police car in a wheel-clamping zone and tried to contact the driver in vain.
“It is the procedure to wheelclamp all vehicles found to be obstructing traffic, including police vehicles,” he said.
Muhamad Irwan said the enforcement of the wheelclamping zone came into force on April 1 this year.
He also said that PPj had a guide on wheel-clamping, towing and parking in Putrajaya which could be downloaded from its official website, www.ppj.gov. my. - Bernama