Arrecife Local Police officers from the Documentoscopy Unit (UDOC) are investigating the owner of a vehicle for an alleged crime of document forgery after verifying that he was using a card for People with Reduced Mobility (TMR) whose expiration date had been manipulated.
The events occurred on January 28, when the agents, while monitoring the correct use of parking spaces reserved for People with Reduced Mobility, noticed that a vehicle was parked in one of these spaces, using a PMR card and that although in a first viewing of it seemed to be correct, after checking it more carefully they realized that the expiration date of the same could have been manipulated.
Given these indications, they proceeded to remove the vehicle to the municipal depot where, after interviewing its owner, he stated that minutes before he had left his mother-in-law, the cardholder, in a town near Arrecife.
However, after carrying out the appropriate checks, it was found that his mother-in-law, the holder of the card he was using, had died five years ago and that after checking the document with the appropriate technical means, its expiration date had been meticulously falsified, extending it.
For these acts, the owner of the vehicle will be brought to judicial disposition accused of an alleged crime of document forgery, facing prison sentences of six months to three years and a fine of six to twelve months.
More and more autonomous communities are implementing new security measures in these documents in order to prevent their fraudulent use, including the implementation of holograms, anti-copy systems with inks visible only with ultraviolet light.
The Local Police of Arrecife also reminds that the use of these cards is personal and non-transferable, and that the original and valid card must be used only by its holder.
With this, there are already three people investigated for similar events in the last year by the Local Police of Arrecife.
