If you don't take traffic rules seriously, then be aware! Soon there will be a network of CCTV cameras at major crossroads in the city to record your traffic behaviour.
If you don't take traffic rules seriously, then be aware! Soon there will be a network of CCTV cameras at major crossroads in the city to record your traffic behaviour.
Any violation will be monitored from a control room and the violator will be issued a memo. This means even if you give the traffic police the slip, the cameras will catch you and make you pay the fine.
The city police are planning to install around 90 CCTV cameras across the city. The idea is to nab traffic violators and also keep a tab on terror activities.
The trial run of installing the CCTV cameras will start on Saturday and will continue till July 26.
While monitoring terror-related activities will be fully operational in next two months, tracking down traffic offenders and issuing them with memo will be operational in six months.
As per the plan, a special control room will be set up in the police commissioner's office to monitor the traffic violators through the network of CCTV cameras.
The cameras will be recording the registration numbers of the offending vehicle as well as the face of the driver.
Police will then get the addresses of the traffic violator from the Regional Transport Office (RTO) and send a memo at his or her house.
Once the memo is delivered to the violator, it will be the offender's duty to pay the penalty at the nearest police station or at the commissioner's office.
The police, however, are yet to finalise the rules and regulations for this operation.
"Even though the prime concern of the project is to keep a tab on terror activities in the city, eventually the cameras will be used to nab the traffic violators," Ahmedabad commissioner of police, Sudhir Sinha, told DNA.
The cameras will be installed at major traffic junctions on Ashram Road, CG Road and SG Highway.
The main spots include Income Tax crossroads Ellisbridge crossroads, Iskon crossroads, Vastrapur crossroads and Narol crossroads.
"The project will be put in place by the city police with the help of BSNL within next two months," Sinha said.
He said a trust would be floated to implement and run the project and donors from all walks of life will be invited to donate money for this project.
There will, however, be another project from Gujarat government, which will later be merged with the one to be implemented by the trust.
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