Suggested improvement to Driver's Improvement Points System (DIPS)

Dragon (24Oct2012) wrote:

cherry6 wrote:

Re Thread: Ridiculous (?reckless?) driver ask for special privileges in Driver's Improvement Point System (DIPs
Very strange TP 12month 'safe driving'= all points purged rule....

So i wonder, you have a better system to propose?

Hi Mod,

Me thinks that we should firstly: KEEP the suspension threshold at 24 pts in 24 months as is the current practice, with the first suspension ranging from 1 to 3 months (depending on driver cooperation with retraining regimes).

However, the 12month clean record all points purged rule has no place in the programme as it not only confuses matters, but also gives drivers the confidence to break traffic rules since they all know that just 1 yr of safe records is sufficient to purge all demerit points ('1yr points purge scheme')- are the traffic police (TP) computers soo advanced that they need to do these unnecessary calculations (thus my suspicion of political interference).
In short, it would be more proper for demerit points to be purged consistently after 2 years and discard the unnecessary interference of the 1yr purge system.

Why a person collecting 23 points in one day at intervals of 1 year between (amounting to 115points over 5years and 5 days) shouldn't be suspended (due to the '1yr points purge scheme') as compared to someone with evenly distributed points (due to not enjoying the '1yr points purge scheme') but quickly suspended eludes me.

A summary of my proposed changes is as follows:
[Info source:Information - Driver's Improvement Point System (DIPs) ]

BTW, the TP's own chart is self contradictory, mistake spotted:

[Info source:Information - Driver's Improvement Point System (DIPs) ]

PS: Reason for this online rant?
TP website said call 6547 0000 during office hours for inquiries, after listening to all the automated operator directed crap, they ask U to dial 65476112 or 6113 regarding the DIPs...called both numbers... and nobody even bothers to pick up the phone... call this public policy decision making? Sounds like sleeping on the job to me- the people in charge were probably chit-chatting over coffee.

Anyway, its all on the REACH forum [link] so they cannot say that I didn't try to tell them in the first place...

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