Is it necessarily illegal for traffic police to take photos?

Legal analysis: It is not necessarily a violation

You must bring your driver's license, vehicle license, original ID card, and ticket to the local traffic police brigade for processing. Ignore warnings about not issuing a ticket. If you issue a warning and deduct points, you must report it, otherwise there will be a violation record

Legal basis: "The Public Security Administration Punishment Law of the People's Republic of China"

Article 10 The types of public security management penalties are: (1) warning; (2) fine; (3) administrative detention; (4) revocation of license issued by the public security organ. Foreigners who violate public security management may be subject to additional time limits to leave the country or be deported.

Article 23 Whoever commits any of the following acts shall be given a warning or fined not more than 200 yuan; if the circumstances are more serious, he shall be detained for not less than five days but not more than ten days, and may also be fined not more than 500 yuan. :

(1) Disturbing the order of agencies, groups, enterprises, and institutions, causing work, production, business, medical care, teaching, and scientific research to be unable to proceed normally, without causing serious losses;

(2) Disrupting the order of stations, ports, docks, airports, shopping malls, parks, exhibition halls or other public places;

(3) Disturbing buses, trams, trains, Impairing order on ships, aircraft or other public transportation vehicles;

(4) Illegal interception, forced boarding, or boarding of motor vehicles, ships, aircraft, or other transportation vehicles, affecting the normal operation of transportation vehicles ;

(5) Disrupting the order of elections conducted in accordance with the law.

Where a crowd is gathered to commit the acts mentioned in the preceding paragraph, the ringleaders shall be detained for not less than ten days but not more than fifteen days, and may also be fined not more than one thousand yuan.

Article 24 Anyone who commits any of the following acts and disrupts the order of large-scale mass activities such as culture and sports shall be given a warning or fined not more than 200 yuan; if the circumstances are serious, he shall be fined not less than five days but not more than ten days. Detention may be imposed and a fine of not more than five hundred yuan may be imposed:

(1) Forcibly entering the venue;

(2) Violating regulations by setting off fireworks or other items in the venue;

(3) Displaying insulting slogans, banners and other items;

(4) Besieging referees, athletes or other staff;

(5) )Throwing debris into the venue and refusing to listen;

(6) Other behaviors that disrupt the order of large-scale mass activities.

Those who are detained for disrupting the order of sports competitions may also be ordered not to enter sports venues to watch similar competitions within twelve months; those who enter sports venues in violation of regulations will be forcibly removed from the site.