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The traffic officials of Cape Town are keeping a record of you and your unpaid fines.

The Traffic Service even has a list of the top 100 motorists with outstanding warrants to see if you’re one of the more serious offenders and they’re using new tech to catch you whenever, wherever.

A suspect who was number three on the list was nabbed over the weekend after managing to rack up a whopping 169 double warrants valued at just under R160 000.

He was arrested on Friday, June 2, along Main Road in St. James during patrols, recognised for his warrants of R158 100 in monetary value still outstanding. Per a City Of Cape Town statement, he was detained at Muizenberg SAPS and was to appear in the Blue Down’s Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

Mayoral Committee Member for Safety and Security, Alderman JP Smith said that the arrest is a timely reminder of the traffic department’s ongoing struggle with “scofflaws who simply have no regard for the law”, warning that:

“Beyond just the staggering value of the unpaid fines, one needs to realise that it represents transgressions like speeding, overloading and other driving offences that put lives at risk, and unnecessarily so.

“As we prepare to extend the rollout of automated number plate recognition technology, I want to warn scofflaws that it’ll become increasingly more difficult to hide. The software will help us identify a range of things while in transit, from stolen vehicles to outstanding warrants and more, so I’d advise motorists to have their affairs in order.”

Indeed the City’s Traffic Services have been hard at work, also managing to arrest another person on the Top 100 list in Epping, with 275 warrants totalling R213 500.

A third person was also arrested at his home in Hanover Park for 28 warrants totalling R22 600.

Time to get those affairs in order.

[source:cityofcapetown]