“This is because only those with complete and legitimate documentary requirements will be given new sets of plates,” she said.
Torres said the rationale behind the plate standardization is to be able to clean the streets of vehicles using faked or duplicated plates.
“After one year of plate standardization, the
vehicles and motorcycles that still use the old plates will surface. The old plates will signal that the vehicle is ‘problematic’ and it will help enforcers to better trace those units that are carjacked or are using faked documents,” Torres added.