STATE POLICE: FIGHTING DRIVERS WITH ABUSIVE RENTALS
The Traffic Police, a specialty of the State Police, during the past week intensified its services to combat the phenomenon of illegal rental with driver activities.
In particular, the services were carried out at night in the Ferrara beach area where this phenomenon tends to take hold. In fact, during the usual surveillance and patrolling activity, flyers advertising the illegal activity had even been noticed, distributed on the streets and in bars with business cards attached.
On the night between 1 and 2 June, the staff of the Codigoro Traffic Police Detachment organized a service aimed at checking cars that could be attributable to a paid passenger transport service without having any title. Two drivers were thus identified and fined.
Specifically, the first car driven by a man from a province in central Italy was transporting 7 boys from Lido di Spina to Porto Garibaldi and San Giuseppe; they had already been illegally accompanied on the outward journey and had also paid in advance for the return journey.
The second car driven by a local man had 3 very young girls as passengers, one of whom was a minor, who he was taking from Lido di Spina to Lido di Pomposa; each of them had paid 10 euros for this short journey.
The drivers were sanctioned and both vehicles were subjected to administrative detention, the period of which ranges from two to eight months and will be established by the Civil Motorization of Ferrara.
The Traffic Police recalls that those who use these illegal services feed a black market that does not protect passengers, while those who regularly carry out the rental activity with driver use suitable vehicles and duly checked by the Civil Motorization, driven by personnel with strictly subjective requirements certificates.
Inspection services will continue during the summer season.
