Thus, it can be temporarily understood that "Cold fine" in the field of road traffic is the sanction of traffic violations after the violator has committed the violation a while ago.

 

Process "Cold penalty"

Regarding the process of “Cold fines”, currently the RD-RRT Traffic Police Department is following a 6-step process:

 

Step 1: Collect infringing images (from vehicles, professional technical equipment or from providing organizations and individuals ...)

 

Step 2: Extract the image.

 

Step 3: Make a violation file, print the notice.

 

Step 4: Issue a notice to the vehicle owner.

 

Step 5: Coordinate with vehicle owners to solve the violation case.

 

Step 6: Update the processing results and close the profile.

 

At step 5, the violator/vehicle owner should note the following when coming to the traffic police headquarters to coordinate in solving the case:

 

Firstly, the violator/vehicle owner needs to bring the following documents: Notice of violation; documents related to the vehicle and the driver of the violating vehicle.

 

Second, submit the relevant documents to the reception staff and wait for the names to be called in order.

 

Third, the reception staff let the violator review the image of the violating vehicle, the violator confirms the correct error. Traffic police officers make a record of violation and issue a sanctioning decision.

 

Fourthly, the violator receives the sanctioning decision and goes to the place of fine payment at the State Treasury or the commercial bank where the State Treasury mandates the collection of the fine stated in the sanctioning decision (or paid by post). collection).

 

Fifth, after paying the fine, the violator submits the receipt to the immigration officer and receives the seized papers.

 

How to handle the case of non-compliance with the notification of the authorities on the case of violation of the Road Traffic Law?

According to the provisions of Clause 12, Article 80 of Decree 100/ND-CP dated December 29, 2020 of the Prime Minister, if the vehicle owner does not come to cooperate in solving the violation case according to the notice of the Traffic Police Department, RRD , then the RRD-RRT Traffic Police Department will send a notice to the registry to include a vehicle warning related to administrative violations on the Inspection Management Program.

 

When the vehicle comes for inspection, the registry office shall notify the person who brought the vehicle to the inspection to know of the violation, carry out the inspection according to regulations for the vehicle, issue an inspection certificate and a safety inspection stamp. technical safety and environmental protection has a validity period of 15 days.

 

After the violator has come to the head office of the person with sanctioning competence to deal with the violation case according to regulations, the person with sanctioning competence must immediately send a notice to the registry office to remove the vehicle warning. related to administrative violations on the Inspection Management Program, conduct the inspection, issue the Certificate of Inspection and the stamp of technical safety and environmental protection according to current regulations for vehicles.

 

Regulations on cold penalty

Regulations on cold penalty

How to look up "Cold penalty"

In addition to the Notice of Traffic Police Units, people can actively look up whether their vehicle has ever been fined or not through the Website of the Traffic Police Department of the Public Security of the provinces and cities (Example: The only access point of the website of the Ho Chi Minh City Police Department is: http://csgt.catphcm.bocongan.gov.vn) or the Portal of the Police of the provinces and cities. or of the Traffic Police Department (address: http://www.csgt.vn). Then, select "Lookup", then select "traffic violation lookup information through images". Here, people just need to fill in the correct license plate information in the box below. When entering search information, people must type correctly letters, numbers and special characters including (,), (-).

 

In case, that vehicle has no violation, the system will display information on the Portal, Website as “Congratulations. Your violation was not found. Please continue to obey the Road Traffic Law and drive safely.” In case, the vehicle has a violation, the system will display information on the Website that is the number of violations of the vehicle.

 

Some recommendations of the traffic police force

People need to strictly abide by the Road Traffic Law; comply with the notice of the competent authority when there is a violation.

All cases of being handled "cold fines" related to traffic are notified of violations by the authorities to vehicle owners or drivers.

 

When receiving the violation notice from the competent authority, on the appointment date, the vehicle owner or the representative of the vehicle owner or the person who commits the violation and the vehicle in violation will come to the headquarters of the competent authority to settle.

 

If after 15 days, the violator has not yet come to the competent agency to coordinate in handling the case of violation of the law The Traffic Police Department will coordinate with the Police Department of wards, communes and townships to return the Violation Notice to the vehicle owner.

 

Do not let bad guys take advantage of "cold punishment" to appropriate property.

Recently, there are a number of scammers using their phones to report violations via images and ask victims to follow their instructions to appropriate property.

 

The method of tricks of these subjects is to use high-tech software (voice over IP - how to call using a voice transmission application over a computer network, fake the phone number displayed on the screen), fake phone number Public telephones of the Public Security (Traffic Police), postal authorities, etc. to call mobile subscribers, landline phones of people to notify them of their involvement in a cold fines receipt. about traffic in order to make people confused and afraid to exploit personal information.

 

Then, the subjects ask the victim to declare assets, available cash and deposits in bank accounts to transfer to the fraudster's predetermined account or provide OTP code to transfer money. into their accounts under the guise of verification, investigation, cold handling; at the same time, ask the victim to keep secrets from his family, including bank employees, about the purpose of transferring money to appropriate.

 

The Road Traffic Police Department recommends that people, when receiving these calls, quickly report to the nearest local police office, so that the functional forces can serve as a basis for investigation, verification and struggle. with these crimes. In addition, people absolutely do not provide or share personal information, background, identity card, phone number, bank account information, credit card (username, login password). , OTP transaction authentication code, email address…) to anyone in any form.

 

How will vehicle owners who do not pay the cold fines be handled?

Violators who fail to pay fines on time will be subject to enforcement. In addition, according to the provisions of Clause 1, Article 78 of the Law on Handling of Administrative Violations, for each day of late payment of fines, violators will be charged an additional 0.05% of the total unpaid fine. In case the vehicle violating traffic has not been paid the fine on time, it will not be registered (Clause 12, Article 80 of Decree 100/2019).

 

Cool ways to pay fines

 

Currently, in order to facilitate the observance of traffic fines in general and cold fines in particular, the Traffic Police Department has deployed and applied many different forms of fine payment, regardless of the administrative boundaries. main:

 

- Directly pay fines at the State Treasury or at banks authorized by the State Treasury to collect fines (specified in the sanctioning decision).

 

– Direct deposit or transfer to the account of the State Treasury (Account information is specified in the sanctioning decision).

 

- Submit to the person with sanctioning competence in the following cases:

 

Administrative sanctions without making a record (warning or fine of 250,000 VND for individuals, 500,000 VND for organizations.In this case, the person with sanctioning competence must issue a decision to sanction administrative violations at place).

Violators reside in remote and isolated areas with difficulty in travelling.

 

– Deposit into the state treasury through the post office or other public postal services.

 

Apply online on the National Public Service Portal. With this form, after the violator completes the payment of the fine, the traffic police will base on the receipt of the fine to return the papers by post.