The Commissioner also discussed the six traffic fatalities in the north in just 7 days - spread out across two weekends.
Though four of the victims lost their lives in a head on vehicular collision where alcohol may have been a factor, the Compol chose to focus on the other two which involved his favourite new target, motorcycles:
Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police
"If you were to travel the highway you would see that we have increased police presence on the highway, because we are now focusing a lot on road policing. Road policing entails where the police do not only focus on traffic violations, but on every crime that may possibly occur on the highway or using the highway as a means to get to where they are going to commit crimes. So we look at the transcend criminals. So, like I said we need to ensure that drivers, riders are more careful and even so, one of the things that we see motorcycle riders do they ride sometimes to the middle of the road. You are not a towhead, or a bulldozer, ride on your side of the road and likewise when it comes to motor vehicle drivers, they sometimes do have any respect or regards to motorcycle riders. We must ensure that motorcycle riders are also paying road tax by way of licensing their vehicles and they do have a space on the road as well and we must respect that. So, it goes both ways, but at the very least motorcycle drivers are the one who are mostly culpable for these traffic fatalities on our highways."
Reporter
"Talk to us about what the situation is in regards to minors' drivers these vehicles, motorcycles, heavy machinery in areas in the rural communities. What is the situation with that in terms if parents can be held accountable if something happens like the one that happen over the weekend."
Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police
"Well, a parent does have a responsibility to ensure that they take care of their child and when we do have incidents occurring involving children and children be harmed, it's a matter more for social to look into and try to inquire what may have gone wrong and see what corrective measures may be taken."
"Sometimes it is difficult for a parent to be punish knowing that they are already punishing, because of what may have happened to the child and so people tend to be more sympathetic towards them, but I would like to advise parents and even those who may have the tendency of giving motor vehicles to children to drive, to desist from doing so, because you do put the child at risk and we don't want that to happen."
