How parking/traffic fines are determined?

[ganman]

I was checking out this list specifying the amounts needed to compound an offence on HDB's & TP's website:

 

http://www.hdb.gov.sg/fi10/fi10204p.nsf/WPDis/Parking%20OffencesProcedures?OpenDocument

 

http://driving-in-singapore.spf.gov.sg/services/Driving_in_Singapore/Information/dips/offences.htm

 

Below example:

 

PARKING PLACES RULES (R2, Cap.214)

Rule No. 3

 

Nature of Offence: Parking other than in a parking lot

 

Amount Offered to Compound $25 (Bikes) $50 (Cars) $80/$200 (Heavy Vehicles)

 

Does anyone understand the various components used to calculate the fines?

 

I guess how the amount offered to the agency by a member of public to compound is calculated should be transparent to the public right?

[nhyone]

My guess would be, severity followed by ease of enforcement.

 

If an offence is severe, it has heavier fine.

 

If an offence is harder to catch, it has heavier fine.

 

These two hold true for the parking offences and the demerit points.

 

I don't know how the actual fines are calculated. However, I believe they are revised upwards (and never down) if the offences go up. (Sort of supply-and-demand.)

 

The bus lane was an exception that it removed the demerit points.

[lutein]

Fines are penalties. They're not meant to recover costs; they're meant to deter people from committing the offence. So there's little "cost recovery" element involved.