FRSC explains the vehicle impoundment instruction

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) Corps Marshal, Dauda Biu, has disregarded the dissemination of a letter that was “wrongly couched” about an order given to Commanding Officers.

This information can be found in a statement made on Thursday in Abuja by Mr. Bisi Kazeem, the FRSC’s spokesperson.

The document in question, according to Kazeem, is related to a directive given to commanding officers that called for a stop to the practise of placing patrol agents inside offenders’ cars during impoundment.

However, he claimed that the original instruction was included in a memo with the reference FRSC/HQ/OPS/94/VOLXVI/094 and was issued on September 12, 2023.

“However, the corps took this to mean that they were not allowed to impounded any automobiles at all.

For the avoidance of doubt, the corps marshal’s order was a correction to an earlier one that said that the impoundment of cars was prohibited as stated in paragraph III of the aforementioned memo.

However, the corps marshal simply forbade the immediate placement of personnel in violators’ vehicles to be escorted for impoundment by patrol teams under any pretence of traffic infraction.

The current position of the corps was as stated in the updated order, he added, adding that the corps was sorry for any confusion the prior memo may have caused.