As part of the sensitization exercise to bring people’s attention to new road safety measures, the Motor Transport and Traffic Department of the Ghana Police Service has organized a day’s stakeholder engagement in Takoradi.
Amongst stakeholders are the National Road Safety Authority, NRSA, Drivers and Vehicle License Authority DVLA, Ghana Highways Authority, and National Insurance Commission NIC, among others to educate them about the new project called Traffitech-Gh – POLICE INVISIBLE EYES ARE WATCHING-# PIEAW #.
The event, which is the third sensitization exercise across the country, is geared towards getting the attention of drivers, vehicle owners, and passengers.
Traffitech-Gh is an automated system developed by the Ghana police service to enforce road traffic laws and regulations to improve road safety in the country.
The initiative seeks to increase compliance with road traffic laws and regulations to reduce traffic crashes, deaths, and injuries. Traffitech-Gh will deploy fixed, mobile, or in-vehicle and radar gun devices to capture, amongst others, speeding and jumping red lights.
In an interview with the Chief Superintendent of Police with the MTTD, Alexander Obeng who is the director in charge of education, research, and training, and is also the project coordinator said the data gathered by the Ghana police service shows that 62% of people who die in crashes are as a result of speeding and so the deployed cameras would capture drivers who disregard road safety measures put in place for the safety of everyone.
He also made mention of how payment can be made once you get a ticket issuance.
Superintendent Obeng also said the issuances would be made to the phone numbers of owners of vehicles once the driver of the vehicle disregards or disobeys any of the road safety measures.
For his part, a representative from the DVLA, Frank Gasese said, the DVLA is to ensure safety on our roads and so they are in full support of this initiative.
He added that, since DVLA keeps a database of all drivers and vehicles in the country, they would be ready to provide real-time information to the system so that the offenders can be apprehended once the initiative kicks off.
