Deportation for traffic violations: Officials can take decision based on assessment of violation record

The recent statement by Ministry of Interior official on deporting expatriate drivers for repeating the traffic violations of driving the car without wearing seat belt and driving while talking on the mobile phone is not only limited to the serious violations, reports local daily Kuwait times.

According to report, the deportation include a wider range of offenses beyond the ‘serious violations’ as described in previous regulations. Kuwiat Times, quoting Head of the Media Security Department at the Ministry of Interior Lieutenant Colonel Nasser Buslaib, reported that the Interior Minister or a ministry official authorized to make deportation decisions on his behalf can decide to deport a repeating offender based on assessment of their record.

“In case the violations are repeated several times, this gives us the indication that the driver is breaking law on purpose, and that his offense was not just accidently committed,” daily reported quoting Buslaib. This decision is only applied on violations where the tickets are issued directly, so to exclude any unjustified behavior by policemen, daily added.