Foreign license plates can not be the grounds to stop a car – Ombudsman Lutkovska

The Ombudsman informs that the police are compiling a database of drivers of cars with foreign license plates and about groundless stops on the roads.

Ombudsman Valeria Lutkovska posted her appeal to the Minister of Internal Affairs, Arsen Avakov, on her Facebook page. 

According to her, the police are compiling the lists of owners of vehicle with foreign registration, and patrol policemen occasionally stop drivers of cars with foreign license plates and ask for their place of residence, mobile phone number, etc. 

– A license plate of a foreign state is not and can not be the grounds to stop a vehicle, – Lutkovska says. 

The Ombudsman states that the patrol policemen must cease the practice of stopping cars with foreign license plates without a reason and destroy the information already obtained from the drivers.