30 Points and Your Licence Is Gone — Fair Warning or Too Easy to Dodge?

Since October 1 a pilot demerit points system has been running alongside Police, DMT, and GovTech, covering 33 traffic offences. No points are actually deducted yet, but from March 2027, hit 30 points and your licence is suspended for a year, cut to three months if you complete a course. One side says this is exactly what reckless drivers need, a running tally beats a one-off fine that is paid and forgotten. The other side points out Sri Lanka already struggles to enforce basic rules like helmets and insurance, so who is actually tracking offences consistently across every checkpoint, every tuk, every rural road? Will corruption or just under-resourcing make this another rule that only catches the unlucky few? If you have been stopped recently, did the officer even mention points, or is this still invisible to drivers on the ground? අලුත් ලකුණු ක්‍රමය ගැන ඔබේ අත්දැකීම මොකක්ද?