Police DIG caught 'red-handed' without driving license DIG Gopal Man Shrestha of the Armed Police Force (APF) was caught red-handed by a Japanese volunteer traffic instructor driving without a license on Wednesday, reports said Thursday. .... Go to Nepalnews.com for full coverage. -- Shame on the DIG. Thumbs up to Mr. Baba. Great Job. Once I met a few Japanese guys in Kathmandu who were training the Nepal Police. I had recommended them to train retired police, govt. officials and free volunteers and run campaigns like in Japan, i.e. teach Nepalis themselves to check the traffick system. Those who were in Japan must have seen the old (retired) people participating in safety campaigns: especially, signals, seat belt and alcohol issues. I liked those Road Safety Associations, I certainly disliked the way police snatches 1,500 yen in the name of these associations. They don't tell you why are you paying if you don't know what that Safety Associations, especially, if you are foreigner and know little or no Japanese language reading and writing. ...... This is how these Safety Associations are run, and in turn your driving license application / renewal forms are filled by these RSA agents. In any sense, getting driving license in Japan is a dream because it probably costs more than the cost of the car you drove to learn driving it. "GIJUTSU WARUI", "GIJUTSU TARINAI" were certainly regular disgusting phrases for those who ever tried to get license in Japan. Show me a foreigner who got license on first trial. I got it in second trial, that is best one, I ever heard. A fellow examinee who was US citizen driving his own car under international license got failed for 3 times and he was comforting me for not getting on first trial. He was so happy to get it on forth trial. While back in Nepal, I went to Bagmati Driving Center, the best driving school at the time I was there. Five guys or more went to driving test on the same day as I went, only me cleared the driving test in field, but, all of them got license at the same time as I got. Well, these guys atleast tested themselves, I had an Indian Friend and a several Bangladeshi Friend who got license through Internet by paying 3000yen to the agent through internet and received fresh international license in Japan. Driving license is a great underground business in developing countries, where a driving license is itself a social status. Well, in USA, getting license is as easy as getting a credit card. In Japan, you can trust day time drivers but, looking at the way they get license in USA, I am scared to trust drivers especially, in poor states like the one I am staying right now. So, Mr. DIG in Nepal was thinking it as his right to drive without caring what a signal means and what a driving license means? I am just waiting what happens to him or will he be just forgiven? GP