Dear Cop - How To Protect

My question concerns other people giving your name when being stopped by the police. For example my husband went to insure a car and was told that he had an outstanding ticket that needed to be paid actually 2 of them, failing to produce a drivers license and failing to wear a seatbelt a total of $200.00. We were told to report it to an 800 number which we did. We then were told to wait for a package in the mail, which would inc. documents that had to be notarized by a notary and returned to them.

Where my question lies is how can we protect ourselves? As now we are going to have to incur the cost of the notary to notarize the paperwork. We have a really really good idea whom it is as they have done this in the past. Is there not a way we could have you flag his drivers license so that the officer on patrol would be aware someone likes to impersonate him? Or can we get a password that must be used for security purposes or something along that line?

It is not uncommon for a police officer to stop a vehicle and find that a driver does not have a drivers licence, but provides a driver licence number or a name, address and date of birth which corresponds with a B.C. driver licence. It is very important that holders of drivers licences do not give out their personal information including the drivers licence numbers.

Motor Vehicle Branch can attach messages for computer checks of drivers licences by police officers to confirm the identification of the person. There is a security word for each holder of a drivers licence. You might want to speak to a representative of the Motor Vehicle Branch about different security words for identification purposes in the future.
A person who is caught using another persons name when stopped by the police can be arrested and charged with Obstructing Peace Officer and Personation which are Criminal Code Offences.

Constable R.A.(Richard) ASELTON
Central Okanagan Traffic Services - Media Liaison

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