SCTEX Cowboys On The Revenue Hunt

Comment from a reader regarding speeding on the SCTEX:

Speed Limits Being Enforced on the SCTEX

The SCTEX police have started enforcing the speeding laws. Recently, I was on the highway, going about the speed limit, while the usual few idiots were speeding by at 120 to 150 kph, endangering everyone around them. When I pulled up to the Subic toll gate, the police had pulled over all the idiots and were ticketing them while the rest of us were waved through. Unlike the SBMA police, these guys appear to know how to operate radar. They were monitoring speed by radar and radio'ing ahead the identification of the cars to be ticketed upon exit. Very clever and very effective. Sometimes the system works.

[The Subic Bulletin] We are surrounded by corruption, murder, theft and poor enforcement of the law for serious crimes and you are swept away with joy by motorists being fleeced for exceeding the speed limit by 20% on the safest road in the Philippines? We think you must have bumped your head as a child!

The SCTEX is patrolled by “patrolmen” not Policemen, they claim to have been deputised my the LTO to write tickets which is dubious to say the least. Due to the many complaints we received about the SCTEX “cowboy patrolmen” we tied to get confirmation from the LTO and details of what percentage of the money collected is skimmed off by the freeway operator, The LTO will not comment.

As previously posted on The Subic Bulletin the SCTEX operators can’t even get the signposted speed worked out:
http://thesubicbulletin.blogspot.com/2009/07/sctex-radar-speed-traps-for-what-speed.html and have already done such stupid things as routing traffic head on almost killing several families:
http://thesubicbulletin.blogspot.com/2009/10/sctex-is-for-motor-vehicles.html
Furthermore these patrolmen do not have the right of arrest or the right to keep your license making their standover tactics illegal. And these are the people to whom you wish to place your trust in fining and making profit only from legitimatly speeding cars?

For readers who are not yet aware, the laser speed measurement equipment is manually operated from within the back of a white Innova parked on the side of the SCTEX but more often within the 80kph zone on the NLEX (about 3 kms from the southbound tollgate).

As the equipment is manually operated braking as soon as you see the white Innova will be beneficial and only the first car in a group can be measured so following another car also gives protection. Lets hope the authorities can put some effort into solving REAL crime instead, sometime in the near future.