Fine for cabbies refusing service | Bangkok Post: breakingnews
Fine for cabbies refusing service
- Published: 27/08/2012 at 09:16 PM
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Traffic police will introduce a new penalty for taxi drivers who refuse service to passengers by arresting and fining them without a prior warning, effective from Sept 1.
Unhappy passengers could now petition the police directly without having to submit their complaints to the Department of Land Transport as before.
The complainants must inform police of the registration number of a taxi whose driver refuses to take them where they want to go, said Pol Col Weerawit Wajjanapukka, chief of the Traffic Police Division’s ticket information centre.
The new regulation will take effect on Saturday, bringing the total number of traffic penalties that allow immediate arrest to 13.
Pol Col Weerawat said refusal of service caused immediate hassles and difficulty for passengers in need of a taxi service and police officers now will not issue a warning to first-time offenders but arrest them.
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Cabbies who refuse to take passengers can now be arrested if those affected call the 1197 hotline or visit Thai Traffic Police and provide the taxi's licence plate number.
Pol Colonel Weerawit Watjanapukka of the Traffic Police Command said police would issue warnings for petty traffic violations instead of tickets from September 1.
Those who receive these warnings will face the maximum fine if they repeat the offence, he added.