The Motor Traffic and Transport Department (MTTD) of the Ghana Police Service has received equipment and training to provide a real time data on road traffic crashes.
The equipment and training are geared towards digitalising the operations of the MTTD, particular in data collection and analysis on road accidents, to internationally accepted standard.
The equipment, training and sensitization programme for the MTTD personnel were put together by the Nation Road Safety Authority (NRSA). The training was held at the Driver Vehicle and License Authority (DVLA) auditorium in Accra on Friday 19, 2024.
Ing. David Osafo Adonteng, Acting Director-General of Nation Road Safety Authority (NRSA), said the programme is historic, as it symbolises the role of the Authority towards its digitization drive in road safety management operations.
Road management operation of the NRSA entails education, engineering, enforcement and emergency response, which aligns with the national policy to digitize the entire economy.
He said the new programme being introduced is known as IMAAP, aimed to revolutionize the collection and analysis of road accident data under another project called Road Accident Data Management System (RADMS).
According to him, the existing practice of road accident data collection and analysis is done manually by the Police, whereby information on paper from the crash scene are kept in dockets/files at their various stations across the country.
He hoped that with the introduction of iMAAP-RADMS, the work of the Ghana Police MTTD would be made easier, efficient and more convenient.
“Police will now move to crash scenes equipped with Personal Data Assistant, input the information directly into the device and with the power of internet transfer online to a central server for storage and analysis. We foresee a smooth integration also with the ongoing Police Traffitech-GH Project which is seeking to automate the enforcement of road traffic laws and regulations,” he added.
The new system is going to support the country to spend relatively less money in the compilation of road crash data as well as make the delivery of road safety interventions quicker and effective.
“Above all, Ghana’s road crash data will be more credible in the eye of the world,” he stressed.
On behalf of COP Francis Ebenezer Doku, Director-General of the Motor Traffic and Transport Department (MTTD) of the Ghana Police Service, Chief Superintendent Samuel Sasu Mensah, responsible for traffic law enforcement, training and research, said the police administration was in full support of the training.
He said the training would strengthen the professional development in traffic accident data collectors with the necessary skills, competence and safety needed for the job.
In totality professional development is one of the key areas the police administration has been keen on and, therefore, embraces the training.
The training had 228 participants from 39 MTTD stations in Accra and they were equipped with 70 personal digital assistants, 30 desktop computer, 30 uninterrupted Power Supply and printers.
The training would be extended to the Kumasi and Tamale in the middle and North of the country
