Municipalities: “let BOAS more small fines unsubscribe’

Posted on 15-05-2015 at 7:50 by sir_smokalot – 39 Comments”

And the money that comes in as a BOA, you bekeurt for handheld calling, or cycling without a light flows in this scenario to – you guessed it – the municipality. Good morning!

Previously, the police have a monopoly on the issuing of fines, but that is already long not more so. Both fines as penalties for the dumping of waste not only by the policeman handed out, here is today, an army of extraordinary investigators – in short, BOA’s – for on the leg.

How exactly with the income from the written fines is regulated was I, the undersigned, are never quite clear, but I always thought that the municipalities were allowed to keep their own personnel was announced. Not a very illogical thought if these people are also on the payroll of the municipality, and parking management is also a task of the church.

But what is clear: municipalities were formerly of the Empire a fee per fine, however, since 1 January has been abolished. According to Tjeerd van Bekkum of the Association of Netherlands Municipalities (VNG), in a later publish radioreportage, where the AD hand has laid.

Sounds a bit weird, isn’t it? Because the municipality will then have BOA’s in service as they will only cost money and yield nothing? But the VNG has a plan conceived: delegate the handing out of fines for light offences at the BOA, in order that the municipality, of a pocket money. With other words: in addition to the police, we can get a second club’s active enforcers, which are under tunnels blocked to cyclists without lights on the bon to swing. A desirable development?

The decision must be taken by the ministry of Security and Justice. That it is not completely wary of it is proved to the news that Rijkswaterstaat staff also boetebevoegdheid.

Photo: the police, fined, autojunk.nl