After the new drug-driving regulations were put on the road, vehicles were forcibly confiscated. Towing operators were worried about false positives and refused to check in the vehicles. While waiting for the urine test report, the vehicles involved could only be temporarily placed in the police station. As a result, the police station was full of seized cars. The transportation bureau will hold a meeting to coordinate the support. (Photo by reporter Wang Jie)
If you catch a drug driver and get to the police station, you will be stuck in a traffic jam! The revised drug-driving law will force vehicles to be confiscated after it goes on the road at the end of October. However, Tainan City's outsourced towing and towing operators hope to see urine reports before towing. However, reports often take two weeks. The police hope to coordinate efficiency and parking in the hinterland, and the Nanjing City Transportation Bureau promised to hold a meeting with the police to develop supporting facilities.
This "traffic jam crisis" at the police station is suspected to be caused by the tow truck operators' difficulties and cost considerations. Vehicles involved in drug driving cases must be forcibly confiscated according to law, but there are still concerns about false positives in the first-line rapid drug screening. Private towing operators are worried that once the test results are reversed, they may have to make two trips to tow the vehicle in and out. They insist on waiting for the official urine test report to be released before towing the vehicle to the storage yard. As a result, the detained vehicles can only be temporarily piled in the police station without moving.
The grassroots police have no choice but to complain about this. For example, the Second Precinct in Tainan's Central and Western District has a small hinterland, and even the parking space for police cars is limited. If a car is confiscated within the jurisdiction, it will be a headache. In order to prevent the space at the police station under its jurisdiction from being completely filled with seized vehicles, the traffic brigade can only tow the vehicles involved back to Jiaotong University for parking, and wait for the confirmation of the urine test report before asking outsourced operators to clean them up. However, the parking area of Jiaotong University itself is also stretched. In the face of the increasing number of confiscated vehicles, the police hope that the Transportation Bureau, which is responsible for recruiting private operators, can communicate.
The Transportation Bureau further explained that the bureau's powers and responsibilities are mainly responsible for adjudication, and it is within the custody and jurisdiction of the police until the case is decided. In the past, the bureau mostly solicited support from private industry operators based on administrative assistance. In the past, there were not many vehicles confiscated before the law was revised, but after the implementation of the new law, the number of confiscated vehicles increased significantly. Faced with the custody problems faced by the grassroots police, whether it is parking restrictions or the implementation details of subsequent towing, the Transportation Bureau will hold a meeting with the police as soon as possible to jointly coordinate a suitable solution.
