It is four months since IPN Agency wrote for the first time (April 8, 2013) about a private luxury car parked across the sidewalk in the center of Chisinau, but its owner continues to park the vehicle there even if he was fined, and the police say they can do nothing else in addition to what they did. In the morning of October 8, the reporters of IPN established that the car was parked in the old place.

After the second material on the topic titled “Police during a month didn’t find person who parked car across sidewalk” was published on August 8, 2013, we found out from the press service of the National Patrolling Inspectorate that that the driver who parks the car across the sidewalk at 68 A. Mateevici St had the license plate removed, was fined 200 lei and got two penalty points.

Then, the head of the Inspectorate’s press service Diana Fetco said the driver paid the fine during 72 hours. Asked about the subsequent methods of penalizing the driver who continues to park the vehicle in the same place and in the same way, Diana Fetco said the police can impose the same punishment on him. But the situation will change when the driver gets 15 penalty points. At that moment, his case will be sent to court for the man to be deprived of the driver’s license.

On October 8, 2013, the Inspectorate’s press service told us that the police are unable to deal with the drivers who park the vehicles where it is convenient for them and the situation as regards illegal parking in Chisinau is rather difficult. INP receives many complaints from people about illegal parking, but the police cannot check all the cars that are reported to be parked illegally in Chisinau as they are not parked every day in the same place.

As to the vehicle parked at 68 A.Mateevici St, we were told that the police officers cannot travel every morning to the scene to fine the driver again and again, but were asked to call the police when we see it parked there. IPN makes the same request to its readers.