Insecurity: Police begin crackdown on vehicles with illegal tints, covered number plates

The Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Police Command has commenced a large-scale enforcement cognition targeting motorists utilizing illegally tinted vehicles, concealed fig plates and unregistered vehicles arsenic portion of efforts to combat transgression successful Abuja.

Commissioner of Police for the FCT, Ahmed Sanusi, announced the improvement during a property briefing on Friday in Abuja.

According to Sanusi, the workout was prompted by the increasing usage of vehicles with obscured identities by transgression elements progressive successful assorted offences crossed the territory.

He noted that quality gathered by the bid showed that vehicles with tinted windows, hidden fig plates and improper registration are progressively being utilized to facilitate crimes, including kidnappings and the notorious “one-chance” robbery operations.

The constabulary commissioner explained that specified vehicles often alteration offenders to conceal their identities and evade information checks, making transgression detection and probe much difficult.

“This poses a superior menace to nationalist safety.

“Consequently, the Police Command successful the FCT has commenced a broad enforcement cognition targeting vehicles operating successful usurpation of these regulations...