How to recognise when you are being ripped off by the police.....

[GSTraveller]

Doing some research on Morocco and came across this interesting vid. It's in Spanish but you quickly get the gist. According to the write up, the cops are in jail now.

 

[Timolgra]

Just playful banter compared to many other parts of the world

 

[codcutter]

It's that interesting you've decided to keep it for yourself

 

[GSTraveller]

It's that interesting you've decided to keep it for yourself

Hover over the word 'vid'

 

[Timolgra]

Hover over the word 'vid'

It's tough on here isn't it

 

[Ogmios]

What a fuss.
50DH = about €5.

...imagine if they'd tried to get him to enrol in an IAM or Bikesafe course ...

 

[AustinW]

Several encounters with moroccan police on my visits. Two notable ones.....My wife was in a hire car behind me, me on my bike coming out of Ouazazatte. Cop steps in the road and pulls her. Says she was speeding - big fine etc. He kept telling me to get lost until he realised I was her husband at which point she might as well have disappeared. Long story short.... Wallet out and he casually picked out a new 100Dh note, put it in his shirt pocket, saluted me and said "un cadeaux pour moi" and let us go.

Next visit, south of Fes, wife, on a bike this time, she clipped a white no overtaking line about 200metres ahead of a full on police road check. This was a far more officious affair and we were made to stand in sun for ages while they processed papers - to soften us up I thought. They wanted to do us both for the same offence but I was having none of it and eventually they did me only for the wife's offence with a fine of 1500Dh. I got a receipt, a translation to English and the autograph of every officer there including a very senior looking dude. Bunch of fascists they were that time.

Otherwise it's a great place, but you can't take the piss with rules of the road.