Many people in the Dominican Republic have gone to renew their IDs, passports or driver licenses only to be told: “We cannot renew your document because you have 10 or 15 outstanding traffic violations!”
Now, the head of the regional office in La Romana, and the director for San Pedro de Macorís, both a part of the Ground Transportation Safety Agency (Digesett) is under investigation for assigning what most of know as “ticket quotas” to their agents. These then are forced to randomly note license plate numbers for non-existent traffic violations to meet the quotas.
Officers in Santiago, La Vega, San Francisco de Macorís and San Cristóbal are also under investigation.
The Internal Affairs Division of Digesett began the investigation when they learned that superiors were assigning quotas of traffic violations of 10 or 15 per day to their agents in the streets. In La Romana, reportedly Digesett agents would just fill out traffic violations using the cédula (ID) number of random persons. Every complaint of unwarranted traffic violations is being looked at by the Department of Attention to the Citizenry. Some are investigated and some are sent to Traffic Court.
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El Nacional
5 August 2019