The Ministry of the Interior suggests capping the financial simulate for police agents who ascertain contraventions. Under a draft law proposed by the Ministry for public consultations, the financial stimuli that now represent 25% of the value of fines collected into the state budget will not exceed three official average monthly salaries set for the previous years. It is suggested excluding the financial stimuli for contraventions documented through the automated road traffic surveillance system “Traffic Control”, IPN reports.
The bill authors said the financial stimulation in the amount of 25% of the imposed fines favors particular categories of ascertaining police agents. The norm also misbalances the situation, causing eventual risks of abuse on the part of the ascertaining agents who can impose fines on citizens in their economic interests. An analysis showed that the revenues of some of the ascertaining agents are much larger than those of other categories of agents. Therefore, the revenues collected as financial stimulus should be capped.
The informative note to the bill says that based on the data of the automated contravention monitoring information system and of ascertaining agents of the General Police Inspectorate, fines totaling over 137.3 million lei were imposed in the first half of this year, over 54 million lei of this sum being collected into the state budget. The value of imposed fines was by 21% higher than in the corresponding period last year. The ascertaining agents in the first six months of this year got financial stimuli totaling 16.6 million lei.
The analysis also showed that among the ascertaining agents that benefitted from the largest financial stimuli were the police employees of the Common Monitoring and Coordination Center whose financial stimuli rose stably. The 21 employees of the Center in the first quarter of this year were paid over 340,000 lei, which is 6% of the sum allocated for the period, with an employee receiving between over 3,000 lei and over 24,000 lei. In the second quarter, the 24 employees of the Center were paid 745,000 lei or 10% or the sum allocated for the period, with an employee being paid almost 5,000 lei to almost 60,000 lei. Other categories of ascertaining agents were disfavored.
If the amendments are adopted, they will take effect as of October 1, 2018.
