“We seek to improve citizen security,” said Deputy Chief of Government Buenos Aires Diego, presenting the work of the Buenos Aires police. The deputy head of Buenos Aires Government, Diego, presented on Friday the work being done by the safety vest dressed City Police in relation to the control of motorcycles to prevent crime and prevent the movement of those who violate traffic rules, and stressed that they were already supervised “52 thousand motorcycles and about 2,500 kidnapped”.
“All this is done in the search for the improvement of citizen security that we are carrying out in the City of Buenos Aires within the Comprehensive Security Plan, which is something very important for us,” said the Deputy Chief of Government.
Santali explained that the implementation of these controls, which are made in conjunction with the Body of Traffic Agents, imply “a central change in a problem that grew as sales and users began to grow” of this type of vehicle. In as much, it needed that “the motorcycles that later do not retire go to compact themselves and all that generates resources for the Graham Hospital and for the Hospital of Children of the City”.
Most infractions are related to adulterated or illegible patents, vehicles without domain name, non-compliance with insurance, expired or disabled driver’s licenses, lack of mirrors on the motorcycle, lack of green card, circulation without a helmet or without a vest and evasion of the traffic controls.
The sanctions include the retention of the vehicle, fines of 100 fixed units (which rise to 200 when it comes to the unauthorized circulation of a companion or the non-use of the reflective vest with the domain number) and the disqualification from driving 5 to 10 days. Each unit is equivalent to $ 10.40, with which fines range between 1,040 and 2,080 pesos.
Also, present were the Security Secretary of Buenos Aires, Marcelo D’Alessandro, and the Under Secretary of Sustainable and Safe Mobility, Paula Bissau. For his part, D’Alessandro said that “we are carrying out 56 daily checks in the City area” and “to this is added what is the Digital Ring that allows us to control the entry and exit” of the motorcycles. “What we are looking for is to create a safer City and regularize the motor vehicle park,” he added.
Bissau said in turn, “we are committed to the Head of Government in reducing the number of deaths in road accidents by 30%, knowing that no person should die for the mere fact of traveling on the street.” In this line, he recalled that the first Road Safety Plan of the City was presented “in March of last year” and that “we are working mainly with the vulnerable actors, and one of them is the motorcyclists” that “in 2016 represented the 40th % of those killed in traffic accidents “.