At the meeting on delinquency held in the prefecture on Tuesday, September 3, the prefect said she had been contacted by the association of taxis and buses on the problem of illegal transporters, coming from both the French side than from the Dutch side. A practice which harms the two associations and against which the commander of the gendarmerie had announced to react. Something promised, something due ... At the request of the Saint-Martin prosecutor's office, a control operation was carried out last Thursday.
During this operation, which was carried out in collaboration with the motorized brigade of the gendarmerie and the Marigot brigade, but also the reinforcement of the mobile gendarmes and the territorial police, around fifteen personnel were mobilized. The opportunity for the police to also control school buses. A total of 53 buses were inspected and only 5 violations relating to vehicle equipment were identified. A figure that contrasts with the control carried out last September 9 in Guadeloupe, where 6 out of 11 school buses were in violation ... "We could have verbalized them all," notes the commander of the gendarmerie of the North Islands, Stéphan Basso, "all simply because we also have a problem with regulations and information. So we will try to inform this profession of the regulations in force, we will do a bit of education and then we will do repression.
In addition, taxis from both the French and Dutch sides were checked. Three taxis, registered on the French side, were checked while practicing this activity without authorization. The three vehicles were seized pending the court decision for concealed work. The first objective of this operation was to show transport professionals that their problem was taken seriously and that he was tempted to remedy it. This type of control will be renewed soon and regularly. _RM
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