The home ministry is making money from traffic offenders

Also noted that the government was apparently planning to privatise the collection of summonses.

It was reported in Parliament that the police had been collecting about RM450 million from summonses every year since 2000.

This is a huge amount and someone is trying to capitalise on it.

This means that more summonses would have to be issued, particularly postal ones which are recorded using video or radar technology, he said.

In the end, he added, more people will be burdened with summonses.
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