duckman
21st July 2005, 10:52
This just in from the Herald:
Yushchenko abolishes traffic police
21.07.05 7.20am
With their voracious appetites for bribes and backhanders, traffic policemen are regarded as the scourge of the former Soviet Union but Ukraine's President has a solution: legislate them out of existence.
President Viktor Yushchenko has abolished Ukraine's state traffic police at the stroke of a pen.
"If the traffic police continue to keep hiding in the bushes with speed cameras and do nothing else, there will be no traffic police," he told a meeting of law enforcement chiefs. "You have discredited this agency. That is why I have taken the decision that from today there will be no traffic police."
Ukrainians should not celebrate too soon. The discredited officers will soon be replaced with a new state patrol service.
Yushchenko abolishes traffic police
21.07.05 7.20am
With their voracious appetites for bribes and backhanders, traffic policemen are regarded as the scourge of the former Soviet Union but Ukraine's President has a solution: legislate them out of existence.
President Viktor Yushchenko has abolished Ukraine's state traffic police at the stroke of a pen.
"If the traffic police continue to keep hiding in the bushes with speed cameras and do nothing else, there will be no traffic police," he told a meeting of law enforcement chiefs. "You have discredited this agency. That is why I have taken the decision that from today there will be no traffic police."
Ukrainians should not celebrate too soon. The discredited officers will soon be replaced with a new state patrol service.