Johannesburg motorists have been receiving no speeding fines in the mail in the past few months. This is because the City of Johannesburg took a decision at the end of February not to renew contracts with service providers that assisted with the electronic enforcement of speed limits. Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department (JMPD) spokesman Wayne Minnaar said on Thursday that there was still manual speed enforcement in the city‚ but not at the level it was before March. "There was a decision taken by the city to increase police visibility. Therefore all speed enforcement was done manually‚" Minnaar said. He said this meant there were fewer cameras on the roads as more JMPD officials concentrated on law enforcement. "It means where officers identify a speeding hotspot‚ officers man the cameras manually and issue the fines directly to offending motorists. The city has decided to do away with electronic enforcement‚" Minnaar said. The contracts‚ which were not renewed at the end of...
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