{"id":56812,"date":"2013-05-15T01:31:55","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T01:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=56812"},"modified":"2013-05-15T01:31:55","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T01:31:55","slug":"560-motor-drivers-charged-to-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=56812","title":{"rendered":"560 Motor Drivers Charged to Court in Sierra Leone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The District Traffic Officer (DTO) of \u201cD\u201d Divisional Headquarters in Kissy, Inspector Victoria I. Sesay, has disclosed in an exclusive interview with Sierra Express Media that her division has so far charged 560 commercial motor drivers and bike riders ever since she took up office on January 8<sup>th<\/sup> this year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cEvery week, thirty-five cases are sent to court for offences ranging from overloading, bald tires, using unauthorized routes, driving without a driver\u2019s licenses or driving \u00a0unregistered and uninsured vehicles or motor bikes,\u201d said DTO Sesay.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She disclosed that every week fines accrued from offences ranged from Le10-11 million\u00a0 which are paid into government coffers. \u201cAs a result, we are able to raise more than Le42 million per month,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said she was pleased to raise over Le 168 million for the last four months for government which is an indication that her department was working to portray the good image of the police.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The soft spoken female police officer said she will not compromise traffic offences in her division and as a result she has now been dubbed \u2018Iron Lady\u2019 in the police force\u00a0 by some drivers who are not happy with her.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8216;Iron Lady&#8217; however commended the following police personnel working under her division. They include Sergeant Cecilia Carew who is the Acting DTO of Shell police post, P.C. 5859 Kamara alias \u2018Pastor\u2019 who is also in-charge of Calaba Town Traffic Police Post, Sgt Barrie, Sgt Sesay, who is also in-charge of operation and P.C. Conteh, among others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She maintained that the police personnel mentioned above are really working hard to help her to succeed as the new DTO.<\/p>\n<p><i>By Dennis Jones<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The District Traffic Officer (DTO) of \u201cD\u201d Divisional Headquarters in Kissy, Inspector Victoria I. Sesay, has disclosed in an exclusive interview with Sierra Express Media [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":29061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671,11448],"tags":[15876,1154],"class_list":["post-56812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-local-news","tag-traffic-offenses","tag-traffic-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}