I have been stopped by the police maybe 10 times over the last few years for driving in the wrong lane, driving the wrong way on a one way street and speeding. Most of the time I get stopped for not being in that narrow right hand lane for motorbikes, it doesn't matter the bulk of the street is amost empty, it doesn't matter there are no signs indicating where you should be. Each time they examine my documents and then insist they will have to confiscate my driver's licence; whereupon I ask them how much. They usually ask me for five hundred to a thousand but I bargain to two or three hundred thousand. There is a video that shows four police taking bribes from motorists and they have all been suspended. I just laughed at that because I would guess 100% of the police are taking bribes. Their pay is extremely low, so they augment their income. The municipality was/is going to pass a law allowing police to collect traffic fines on the spot and many people were upset this would cause misuse of funds, what a joke. The system they have now works fine and tampering with it is just going to cause more misery amongst the population as most stops by the police are unwarranted anyway. There was an article in a local paper that talked about the unfairness of police not fining expats as it was too much trouble to do the paperwork. I thought - they must be talking about another country.