AT least 60 West Australian drivers suspected of rorting the demerit point system by claiming someone else was driving their car when they broke a traffic law will be charged.
An audit of traffic infringements over the 12 months to November found 360 potential cases of drivers falsely declaring that another person was driving their vehicle at the time of an infringement.
Only 60 cases have clear photographic evidence to charge people, but further reviews could identify more cases for prosecution, WA police said.
The review was ordered after a driver was accused of advertising on the Gumtree website for strangers to be paid to take his demerit points for speeding.
Drivers who accrue 12 demerit points are banned from driving for three months and points can accrue over three years.
Registered vehicle owners can nominate another person as being the driver at the time of an infringement, with demerit points transferred to that person.
Commander Alf Fordham said that police would continue cracking down on the demerit points scam.
"We now have processes in place to ensure we catch people engaging in this practice and we will get you, both as the driver and the person incorrectly accepting the points," he said.
The infringement management office had now developed criteria that would trigger an investigation into a renomination, he said.
Falsely nominating another driver can lead to charges of wilfully misleading police, which can incur a $1600 fine, or false statutory declarations that can result in two years' imprisonment and a fine up to $24,000.
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