from Wednesday, SNCF and RATP will be able to check the addresses of offenders

The system aims to reduce the risk of fines being lost. Six public transport operators, including SNCF and RATP, will be able to check the addresses of offenders without a transport ticket from Wednesday January 8 in order to ensure that the fine imposed on them arrives safely. . “Fraud (…) represents a shortfall estimated at around 700 million euros per year throughout the country. This system will make the addresses of offenders more reliable to optimize the recovery of fines.reports the Union of Public and Rail Transport (UTPF), the professional union in the sector.

The device called “Stop Fraud”, “validated by the Cnil”the personal data protection watchdog, will allow transport companies to check “at the end of the day” the address given by the offenders at the time the fine was notified by the controller. The terms of this new prerogative were detailed in a decree published on December 3. It thus allows the system, developed and managed by the National Printing Office, access to the files of the General Directorate of Public Finances, in order to bring out the correct tax address, provided that the person has given their true identity.

For the time being, inspectors will not be able to check the address of the offender during the inspection itself, but this possibility is included in the proposed law for the “strengthening security in transport”, filed by Senator LR of Alpes-Maritimes Philippe Tabarot, who became Minister of Transport, reports to the UTPF.

Six companies, those which financed the system, will launch it this Wednesday: SNCF, RATP, Keolis, Transdev, RTM (Marseille public transport network) and Tisséo (the Toulouse network), said a representative of the ‘UTPF. The other networks will in turn be able to adopt it within three months. The UTPF brings together some 150 urban network operators in total.