The Motor Traffic and Transport Division (MTTD) of the Ghana Police Service has engaged and sensitised stakeholders in the transport sector on ‘Traffitech-Ghana’ to reduce accidents and carnage on our roads.
Traffitech-Ghana is an automated system developed by the Ghana Police Service to enforce road traffic laws and regulations to improve road safety in Ghana. The system uses cameras and sensors to automatically take a picture and or video of vehicles that flout road traffic laws and regulations such as speeding and jumping of red light.
The objective of the technology is to to increase compliance of road traffic laws and regulations to reduce road traffic crashes and injuries.
ACP Frank Abrokwah, Manhyia Division Commander, who represented the Regional Police Commander and Inspector General of Police (IGP), noted that Traffitech-Ghana would deploy fixed mobile/in-vehicle and radar gun devices to capture, amongst others, speeding drivers and those jumping red lights.
He said pictures or videos recorded of the offence are automatically transmitted back to the office for validation, and issuance of a notification by SMS to the vehicle owner for payment.
He noted that, other traffic offences that would be enforced under Traffitech-Ghana were expired road worthiness certificate, wrongful overtaking, non-use of seatbelts, use of expired licenses, driving with an uninsured vehicle, and abuse of siren among others.
He stressed that, the consequences of defaulting on the payment of Traffitech-Ghana would lead to an additional 1% penalty on the original Traffitech-Ghana fine for each day of default after 14 days payment period.
He reiterated that, all traffic enforcement devices that operate in Ghana, under the auspices or on behalf of the MTTD, were approved and regularly verified for accuracy related aspects by the Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) based on internationally accepted standards.
He stated that, the data/photo/video evidence of one’s offense could be found online under the Ghana Police Service (MTTD) Traffitech-Ghana after typing in their violation number and follows the prompts to review the photo/video evidence file of their violation.
