Montreal police Chief Inspector Stephanie Lemieux confirmed a long standing suspicion earlier this wee: Montreal police officers have a ticket quota that they must meet on a monthly basis. A monthly traffic ticket quota. In Montreal. Imagine that!
Chief Inspector Stephane Lemieux refused to indicate precisely how many tickets each police officer must issue each month, but defended her position by saying that when the quota number goes up, highways traffic deaths in and around Montreal go down. Presumably speeding offences lessen as the ticket numbers rise, thus making for fewer accidents and safer highways.
For several years the Police Brotherhood Union has proclaimed that Montreal police officers do in fact have a ticket quota, and that on a regular basis those ticket quota numbers are increased. Union Chief Yves Francoeur says that the ticket quotas are simply a way to raise more money for the city, something which Chief Inspector Lemieux denies vehemently. “We don’t want to hand out so many tickets that we become a bank machine,” said Lemieux.
Who do you believe?