Deputy Minister of Home Affairs Obedingwa Mguni has revealed that the Zimbabwe Republic Police will soon be using an advanced system for deploying spikes, that they copied from South Africa. Addressing senators last week, Mguni said:
There is an electronic system that we will introduce when we are integrated which detects a vehicle that may not have paid its licence.
Then those who are about 400 metres will be telephoned to inform them about this vehicle. That is when the driver will see a spike on the ground when he is approaching.
The dispute that I have come across in Zimbabwe most of the times is that — I am not sure whether the taxi driver refuses to stop and then police run to throw the spike.
If it is like that, we issued a statement that it is illegal to throw a spike on a moving vehicle. We said this constitutes three years imprisonment for a police officer.
If it is laid on the road and the driver decides to drive on top of it, that driver is reckless.
He needs to be charged because he is carrying about 17 people in his vehicle and he does not care to use flat tyres.
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