On the 060802 Friday evening. 2345hrs
3 TP bike was camping at Raffles Bvld after the bend towards ECP
just after bus stop. The traffic police wore long sleeve blue from
top to bottom.
Traffic was heavy, and slow.
The TP stop ALL BIKE SPOTTED. CLASS 2 bike were let go after
awhile. The others class 2a and 2b riders were all told to
surrender their IC, Insurance and Driving license. After around
30mins, about 60 bikes was stopped and had their document
surrender.
5 more TP bike came down to the scene. Most of the bikers didnt
even had chance to speak to the officer or question by them as
there's too little TP but too many bikes held. The bike range from
CBR, GSX, S4, SP, Apprilla, Krr, FSX, Phantom, DT, XR even an old
suzuki GN125 I think.. etc... u name it u got it.
Around 12.05am 170802, All riders and pillion was told to start
their bike and in twos follow the TP back to their HQ at UBI. The
rider were all confused as the traffic police didnt even inform
them why we should follow them back and base on what charge. But as
all the riders' IC, License, Insurance were detain by the TP all
had no choice but to follow.
The convoy of 60 bikes of all kind moves off slowly from Raffles
Bvld to Ubi. The convoy hit the ECP at around 40-50km/h and was
stretch upto 2km long with only 8 TP bike escourt. The large convoy
taken up all the left lane on ECP and exit at Fort Road. Filter
lane were all block by TP and traffic light without camera were too
block by TP for the large convoy to move. The convoy was freaking
long imagine 60 bikes 2 by 2 taking up centre lane on Gullimard
road.
At the TP HQ, riders were called 1 by 1 and were than told that the
TP is going to impound their bike and awaits LTA inspection as they
were being suspected of having illegal modification. They were
given the date for the inspection. Some were lucky to have the date
early this few days but the latter got to wait upto a week or 2. No
one was spared everyone's bike was impounded. No excuse or
reasoning, they just dun bother abt why u were there.
After the rider pushed their bike to the impound compound parking
and surrender of bike key, They were allowed to leave and report
back the day stated in the notice given.
----Extracted from a biker website-----
Editors note : The Trafic police unit involved is the Task force
unit which travels in groups of not less than 3, they are fully
clothed in blue and operate mainly to assist the ROV in illegal
modification operations.
