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Dundee police take action on uninsured motorists
Police and prosecutors in and around Dundee are set to clamp down on motorists driving without insurance following a report which revealed that the offence has escalated across Scotland in recent years, according to The Evening Telegraph and Post.
Recently introduced legislation will allow Procurators Fiscal and police to impose fixed penalty fines of £200 plus six penalty points for driving without insurance, enabling the local authorities to draw away from the city's reputation as the fifth highest in the Scottish league tables of offenders.
A Crown Office circular has now given the Fiscal service the go-ahead to implement an amendment under the Road Traffic Act, making first offenders caught without insurance subject to a fixed penalty notice issued either by the Fiscal or the police.
District Procurator Fiscal Betty Bott said the notices would only be issued where the service and police were satisfied it was a first offence and there was evidence there was no insurance.
However, Inspector Gordon Taylor, of Tayside Police, questioned whether the perception of increasing number of uninsured drivers was accurate, but said there were numbers of people in the city willing to drive without the required documentation.
He said that both men and women's car insurance were often simply overlooked by drivers who believed they wouldn't be caught.
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