Police chief Vladislav Husak has been caught speeding for the second
time this year, prompting calls for his resignation. Although it is
actually Mr. Husak's personal driver who has repeatedly violated
traffic regulations it is the police chief who is being held
responsible. When it happened the first time round in July, shortly
after a strict new road law went into effect, the police chief promised
to suspend his own driver's license for three months and said he would
donate ten thousand crowns to charity to make up for it. On this
occasion, when his driver failed to stop at a railway crossing,
whizzing through at 180 km per hour, Mr. Husak claimed to have been
fast asleep at the time. The interior minister has been unavailable for
comment but a number of senior politicians have said Mr. Husak should
be fired.