Cops withdraw road tax summons after driver's FB post

Police have withdrawn a summons for not displaying a road tax sticker which was wrongly issued after the driver posted the traffic ticket on social media.

Petaling Jaya police chief Mohamad Fakhrudin Abdul Hamid said the police cancelled the summons as it is no longer an offence following the Transport Ministry’s instructions on Feb 10.

"The Petaling Jaya district police headquarters noticed a post that was uploaded on Facebook using an account under the name of Faiz Sulaiman. He shared a photo of a police 257 summons that had been issued to him.

"A check by the PJ district police headquarters found that police patrol had issued the summons on April 16 for failing to display the road tax on the Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah PJ airport road,” he said in a statement today.

He added that instructions have already been issued to officers in the field not to issue summons related to the offence in accordance with the Transport Ministry’s directive.

Transport Minister Anthony Loke announced in February that Malaysians no longer need to display motor vehicle licences, also known as road tax stickers (LKM), on privately owned vehicles.

Loke told a press conference that as such, the enforcement of Section 20 of the Road Transport Act on the matter is no longer in effect.

Fakhrudin said police will conduct an internal investigation on the police staff involved for negligence.

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