JAMAICA Observer online readers have weighed in on yesterday’s lead story about the involvement of Government workers and auto parts dealers in a major car-cloning ring, which has seen an increasing number of cars being found to share the same chassis number, licence plate, title, registration number, fitness and licence disc numbers. Here are some edited comments:

Holy Perv

Bwoy. We teef milk outa coffee. Is there any hope for some of us? If we only could use all that ‘craftiness’ and tun it into something positive and legit then we would be going places. Jamaica too corrupt iyah. The scammers and government employees should be caught and dealt with by the courts. Can you imagine being hit and injured by one of those uninsured vehicles?

hope2013

hope2013

@Holy Perv: What court? The court is the one that let the scammers go. So does the DPP. …Jamaica is probably the only place where corruption is legal.

PhilT McNastyI

PhilT McNasty

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s there anything bandooloo and evil that we are not pros at? When we have government workers behind it with false paperwork, it is fair to say that it is a real business syndicate and a safe business venture.

Carlton

Carlton

Where is the answer to the question… how vehicle owners can protect themselves?

shift

shift

@Carlton: Carlton, I was wondering the same thing. All now the question nuh answer. I recommend:

Being vigilant about where you park and when you park and leave your car.

Ensure it is difficult to steal your car from your house. Lock the gate at night, get dogs who are always on alert and not swayed by food from strangers.

Get vehicle tracking.

Security cameras so you can see who stole your car.

Those are your best bets. If they still get the car after that then there is absolutely nothing you can do.

Jamaican Thoughts

Touch much loophole in Jamaica. All kind of things go through unnoticed.

Yardie D

Yardie D

This is another scam imported from the US, been happening here for years now. There has been news coverage here about this very scam. I thought Jamaica was the home of bandooloo until I started living here. This is where these scam artistes learn their schemes.

John Brown

John Brown

Anytime PNP is in power new schemes are always hatched. Think I am political, well:

1. Ponzi scheme

2. Lotto scam

3. Car cloning scam

noshel

noshel

I can also say crooked police officers seems to also be involved, because this should be stopped already. Jamaican police are way too slow on coming up with plans on how to find out what is going on and who are involved!

Crucial

Crucial

This is not even funny! These people should be sent to prison for decades when caught!

Nic Karta

Nic Karta

The innovations of these criminals are amazing.

Really

Really

I find that the sentences given to those who are caught are much too insignificant to scare them and others into discontinuing their crooked ways. They need to have hard labour and spend at least 20 years in prison with no bail and their cases should be dealt with promptly. Let the soldiers manage them in chain gangs to clean gullies, sidewalks, parks, homes, plant crops to sell and supplement the prison system etc. Their properties and money in the banks must be confiscated and used for the upkeep of failing homes. Teach them a valid lesson and stop pampering them as this does not work.

reader

reader

The prison sentence, if any, and or fines are way to small to deter these criminals. Until the courts get serious then these things will continue to occur.

JustandBalance

JustandBalance

The laws on the books are not severe enough to deter the criminals. This is a case where Government can modify the laws on the books expeditiously to reflect the times. The Government can then set up a sting and investigating operation to net the culprits. Do not conclude the sting with the first case of irregularity; run the operation for a year, build a relationship with the criminals then take them down.

ADright

ADright

The government workers facilitating this corrupt criminal practice should be terminated and prosecuted using better legislation that should deter this activity. It seems they are the elephant in the room in this malfeasance.

TheTruth

TheTruth

Motor vehicle theft could have been drastically reduced if they wanted it to be. GPS tracking systems are now accessible for less than $10,000. The police often complain about overcrowding of vehicles at stations. Get some of these GPS trackers and deploy these vehicles in known theft hotspots; the rest speaks for itself. Come on, man!

NejeeperKNG

NejeeperKNG

There is too much justification for criminality in Jamaica. Some will even call themselves sufferer and wear it like a badge of entitlement to be corrupt. It is also compounded by the many criminals in high places.