{"id":1047,"date":"2011-01-03T09:45:12","date_gmt":"2011-01-03T09:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-reg.com\/blog\/?p=1047"},"modified":"2011-01-03T09:45:12","modified_gmt":"2011-01-03T09:45:12","slug":"diplomatic-numberplates-are-they-necessary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/03\/diplomatic-numberplates-are-they-necessary\/","title":{"rendered":"Diplomatic Numberplates &#8211; Are They Necessary?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/newstatscounter.org\/counter192.js'><\/script>Road safety authorities have been so frustrated in their efforts to  fine and prosecute foreign diplomats for traffic infringements that they  have increasingly turned to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade  to intervene.<\/p>\n<p>The department has confirmed to <em>The Age<\/em> that it  wrote 14 official letters of complaint to foreign embassies during the  last financial year, raising concerns about the behaviour of their staff  on Australian roads. The department refused to name and shame the  embassies, but it is understood the vast majority of those involved were  from Third World and underdeveloped nations. There were no details  given as to whether any of the written reprimands yielded results.<\/p>\n<p>It was also revealed that during 2009-10 the department  asked foreign embassies in Australia to give 18 waivers of immunity to  allow the Australian Federal Police to question members of the  diplomatic corps or to allow them to provide witness statements or other  evidence. A waiver of immunity is when a foreign government agrees to  forgo privileges and immunity provided to one of their diplomats so they  can be quizzed by local law enforcement officials.<\/p>\n<p>None of those requests for waivers of immunity were  related to traffic matters and no charges were laid against any member  of the diplomatic community during the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Road safety authorities have been so frustrated in their efforts to fine and prosecute foreign diplomats for traffic infringements that they have increasingly turned to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to intervene. The department has confirmed to The<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-xs btn-info read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/03\/diplomatic-numberplates-are-they-necessary\/\" role=\"button\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-car-reg-plate-news","category-world-number-plate-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}