No need for AES if Kejara is enforced - Mahfuz

There is no need to fine road users under the automated enforcement system (AES) if the Kejara demerit point system is enforced, said Datuk Mahfuz Omar (PAS-Pokok Sena).

He said AES will be irrelevant if the Kejara is enforced.

“If the Kejara system is carried out fairly on the poor and rich, then the authorities need not compound errant road users especially those who are poor,” he said in his supplementary question to Deputy Transport Minister Datuk Abdul Aziz Kaprawi (BN-Sri Gading).

Abdul Aziz said the Kejara system will be integrated with the AES and ensure all road users are treated fairly.

He said the system will educate road users to be more responsible and avoid their licenses from being suspended.

Before this, Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar had also called for Kejara to be enforced immediately to ensure road users comply with traffic laws.

He said it was time the system, introduced in 1984, was fully implemented as a lesson to road users who violate traffic regulations.

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According to the Kejara system, those who accumulate 15 demerit points will have their licences suspended.

The licence will be cancelled if the owner of the licence commits more traffic offences and accumulates 15 demerit points after being suspended three times.