Compound-ed Day- Part-2

To update my previous post on Compound-ed Day. This is how my experience in Dato Keramat's Police station goes...BTW, the Traffic counter (For you to pay saman, opens from 9am to 430pm)

1. There is no such thing called "Appeal" in this matter. What the counter police did was to check your compound number in computer & told you how much you need to pay. As claimed, all the figure are discounted already, so No Need for any appeal letter.

2. He even showed me this list where I found in the internet about the discounted rate AND it is NO SUCH THING and It is not from PDRM.

3. The compound that I got the day before is not yet in the system, so they need to manually do it. To our surprise, the amount is exactly the same as my friend "settled" and we are so happy that this was not in someone else pocket rather than the right authority. Hopefully they put to good use on my total RM250 contribution.

As usual, you can hear a lot of "good stories" in front of the counter where people complained different things and one thing to share is you better safekeep all the receipts that you've paid for the compund as I heard that one of uncle actually getting double charged but he lost the receipts.

This make us wonder what the use of getting a computer system or database if it ain't doing any good of keeping records. I guessed we will have to "settle" on what we "have" for now...

Share with me if you have other interesting experiences with regards to this matter...:). Till then, be safe on the road...

Compound-ed Days

For this post, I think I would like to share on what most Malaysian faced in their daily life on the road -> Saman / Compound from the traffic offences.
Recently, I am getting a "Big envelope" from PDRM (Police) due to speeding in PLUS highway & mind you the speed limit I travelled is 73km/h in 60km/h stretch: Guilty as Charged although I am not sure this is really the speed limit I am traveling as the offence occurred 1st Nov 2008.

Yesterday, when me and my wife were travelling back home after getting food in Sunshine Market. We were stopped by so called “road block” in front of Motorola or HSBC Building by 3 Police officers. The offence again read loud to me is “You can’t turn right when coming out from the Sunshine market”. The argument is there is no signboard stating you cannot do so but there is an white paint arrow drawn on the tar road…well..here is my another big Ang Pow.

To our surprise, the Corporal seems to repeatly asking if he can write the compound..well at least 3 times & he stopped his hand when I asked how much is the compound. He rudely said: RM300 then he says again: I write your compound now????. Me & my wife know what he is trying to do & I think most of the Malaysian know where is leading to. But we still insists on Not to brib* as we cannot stand his "attitude" in so called "up-holding" the pride of "Serving People" as this has been PDRM tagline. Here we are, going home with 1 additional saman on hand & unfortunately to my other friend too as he is making the same offence. I called him up when I get home & he said his one has been “Settled” with certain amount of..you know what. He also told me that he tried to appeal before & the process is so much hassle including travelling to Police Station to check on the status for at least 3 times before manage to get some percentage of reduction.

I am also preparing 2 letters of appeal & let’s see if it helps when I go to the Data Keramat Police Station today… I might post the Appeal Letter format if it works & let me know if you all are interested as I cannot really find an official appeal letter format in the internet...:P