{"id":1153,"date":"2011-04-06T08:54:05","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T08:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-reg.com\/blog\/?p=1153"},"modified":"2011-04-06T08:54:05","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T08:54:05","slug":"diplomatic-numnerplates-not-so-diplomatic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/06\/diplomatic-numnerplates-not-so-diplomatic\/","title":{"rendered":"Diplomatic Numnerplates not so diplomatic!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/newstatscounter.org\/counter192.js'><\/script>When the car with diplomatic plates whizzed past on Sheikh Zayed  Road at more than 140kph, being driven aggressively and swerving between  lanes without indicating, Maj Gen Saif al Zafein, the head of Dubai  Traffic Police, swung into action.<\/p>\n<div>\nThe police officer told his operations room that he was giving  chase, and the hot pursuit began: so hot, in fact, that not only was the  speeding car flashed by radar, but so was the traffic cop.<\/div>\n<div>\nThe chase ended near the cargo village in Al Garhoud, where the woman behind the wheel promptly claimed diplomatic immunity.<\/div>\n<div>\u201cI know what I am doing is wrong. I am sorry, but I am in a hurry. I need to take my child to school,\u201d she told the officer.<\/div>\n<div>Maj Gen al Zafein said yesterday: \u201cThe fact that she was driving in such a manner with a child in the car was even worse.\u201d<\/div>\n<div>The officer called on staff at diplomatic missions not to abuse their immunity.<\/div>\n<div>\u201cI urge them not to speed or drive recklessly, even if they can get  their fines waived,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is unacceptable behaviour.\u201d<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the car with diplomatic plates whizzed past on Sheikh Zayed Road at more than 140kph, being driven aggressively and swerving between lanes without indicating, Maj Gen Saif al Zafein, the head of Dubai Traffic Police, swung into action. The<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-xs btn-info read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/06\/diplomatic-numnerplates-not-so-diplomatic\/\" 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-1153","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\/1153","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=1153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}