Kinshasa, May 29th, 2025 (CPA) – Police officers in the city of Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), have been urged to channel transactional fines into the city treasury in order to maximize public revenue, the CPA learned on Thursday from a police source.
‘The new police commander for the city of Kinshasa has urged police officers to channel transactional fines into the city treasury in order to maximize public revenue. This applies to offences relating to violations of the highway code and other minor offences submitted to the commander of a sub-police station’, said José Kudia, deputy senior commissioner. ‘There is an uncivilized practice among judicial police officers (OPJ). Most of them do not pay the money they collect into the public treasury account. This practice, which is detrimental to revenue collection, must be stopped. The money collected must be paid into the urban treasury account’, he added. According to him, ‘any police officer who fails to comply with these instructions will be liable to punishment, and any recalcitrant officers will be handed over to the military justice system’.
Dismantling illegal car parks set up by motorcyclists
Deputy Commissioner José Kudia also stated that the new provincial commissioner of the Congolese national police in the city of Kinshasa had asked police officers to dismantle illegal car parks created by motorcyclists. ‘There is a proliferation of pirate car parks created by motorcyclists all over the city of Kinshasa. It’s not normal for these car parks to be found even in the commune of Gombe, where motorbike taxis have been banned. All these car parks need to be dismantled’, he said.
According to him, car parks have been created where they don’t belong. He cited the cases of the Gombe Higher Pedagogical Institute (ISP), the Socimat roundabout in Batetela in the north of the Congolese capital and ‘more seriously, as far as Ngaliema at the entrance and exit of the City of the African Union, where the presidential motorcade passes’. He concluded: ‘It’s understandable that there are motorbike parks in the city. But not in the city center. There are orders signed by the governor banning motorbike traffic in Gombe’. CPA/