Paphos Life

Paphos traffic police booked 50 drivers for various traffic offences on Sunday as part of checks on the secondary road network....

Read the article and chat about it below...

For those on here who think they don't have to renew their road tax until March, see the above
"Police said 23 drivers were booked for speeding, two for driving without insurance, three for driving without MOT, five for driving without road tax",

For those on here who think they don't have to renew their road tax until March, see the above
"Police said 23 drivers were booked for speeding, two for driving without insurance, three for driving without MOT, five for driving without road tax",

Perhaps someone should tell the police about March

This is Cyprus, they probably have not paid for 2019 yet.

I too think they would owe road tax for one or more previous years..

I hope the "carrying passengers in unsafe conditions" was children not being belted in, or sitting on the driver's lap. I know I survived being a kid in a car without seatbelts, but speeds were lower and there was much less traffic. Plus it wasn't law then.

They could not find more than 50 in a day? Guess the Paphos cops need eye tests.

People on here moan, that the police dont do anything, then they moan when police do something, guess some people on here just love to moan

Devil wrote: ↑Tue Feb 11, 2020 10:22 am They could not find more than 50 in a day? Guess the Paphos cops need eye tests.

Devil do you know
a) How many officers were involved.
b) How long they were on that operation?
c) Were they on mobile or static patrol?
d) The weather conditions at the time.
e) The operation criteria they were operating under.
f) Do you know how long it takes to process an offence, ie checking a persons ID, the vehicle documents and vehicle ID, taking the offender(s) explanation, issuing the ticket, maybe seizing the vehicle, writing up the evidence before you embark on the next offender.

boycott wrote: ↑Tue Feb 11, 2020 12:08 pm Devil do you know

No I don't know. What I do know is that a similar blitz in Larnaca yielded 836 booked for traffic offences in eight hours. I do not believe that Larnaca has many more cops than Paphos (although slightly bigger, it has less crime).

https://cyprus-mail.com/2020/01/31/836- ... ght-hours/

I agree with Devil; considering the amount of cars you see that are speeding, drivers on mobiles, jumping the lights, not indicating and even going round the roundabouts the wrong way the totals are very low.
Last year I saw the police pull in about ten cars for speeding on TOTK road in about five minutes with one officer stopping them and five doing the booking.; they must have come down from Nicosia

Jim

I think you have all missed the point. The checks were on the "SECONDARY ROAD NETWORK".

I take this to mean they were, in this instance, looking for people on the less used lanes around the area. This won't include TOKR or the B6.

Now, regarding crime rate, Larnaca is indeed lower:

https://www.numbeo.com/crime/compare_ci ... Comparison

However, they are both much better than, say, Birmingham.

https://www.numbeo.com/crime/compare_ci ... Birmingham

Dominic wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2020 8:35 am I think you have all missed the point. The checks were on the "SECONDARY ROAD NETWORK".

I take this to mean they were, in this instance, looking for people on the less used lanes around the area. This won't include TOKR or the B6.

They could catch that number on just the Marathunta to Konia road in that time, especially when work finishes at Minthis Hills.
The Police are out and about today as well according to Paphos Chat.

Jim

I drove through a couple of checkpoints today in Paphos. I guess is they were checking licenses, though I didn't actually get stopped myself.

Happy in Cyprus wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2020 12:57 am Larnaca has a metro population of 144,200 and Paphos 35,961. It other words, Larnaca is 4 times bigger, population-wise, than Paphos.

Sorry, that is utter nonsense, exaggerating Larnaca by over 2¾ times. Please, when making comparisons, compare like with like.

In 2020 2019, the population of the city of Larnaca, Cyprus is - 51 468 people. All-populations.com used data from the number of the population from official sources.

If you want it by district (difference 59%):
Postscript The above table shows no significant difference in the numbers of fatalities between the two districts, despite the difference in population.

What is the difference between "fatal" and "dead"?

Dead are always higher. Is it fatal if they survived but died later as a result of injuries?

Dominic wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2020 2:46 pm What is the difference between "fatal" and "dead"?

I suspect that "fatal" is the number of accidents with fatalities, while "dead" is the total number of deaths. I.e., one accident, but two deaths ...