A chaser of lost dogs and traffic offenders.

We drove around for an hour, unable to conjure up a traffic offender for the life of us.

He is accused of pardoning more than 100 traffic offenders, including 27 drunken drivers.

When the court authorities called for the traffic offender to be sent to court, jail officials sent the wrong man.

Court officials, believing they were dealing with the traffic offender, ordered him released.

The fine is believed to be the largest ever given for speeding in Finland, where traffic offenders are penalized according to their ability to pay.

Then Traffic officers could stop many more traffic offenders than they do now - no bureaucracy!

Of course, because it is routine in this city for traffic offenders to be found, too late, to have been tooling around without valid licenses.

"We are still chasing traffic offenders and risking the lives of not only the police officers but also the public," he said.

The effort, which would include arresting some traffic offenders, is part of the Mayor's attack on so-called quality-of-life offenses.