AS THE Police Traffic Department continues its campaign to remove illegal tints from vehicles, the Guyana Police Force has clarified that only the Minister of Public Security can authorize a waiver.

Traffic Chief (ag) Superintendent Boodnarine Persaud said the law is what provides the Minister of Public Security with authority to exempt a motor vehicle or motor vehicles of various class or classes or descriptions as he may think fit.

As a result, one may see certain government officials, senior military officers and businessmen carrying tint on their vehicles. That is because they would have been given exemptions by the Minister.

The Tint campaign started earlier this month. Quoting a section of the Motor Vehicle and Road Traffic Act, the Traffic Chief noted that: “No person shall have fitted to his motor vehicle any glass or safety glass, or any material used in the place of such glass or safety glass, which is so tinted or otherwise treated or coloured in such a manner or to such extent as would result in obstructing the identification of the driver of the motor vehicle or any other person travelling in the motor vehicle by any person from outside the motor vehicle.”

Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan had noted that government will be moving to review the existing policy regarding tint on motor vehicles as one of the components of the National Crime Fighting Strategy.