Bolgatanga — The Motor Site visitors and Transport Division (MTTD) of the Ghana Police Service (GPS), together with the Nationwide Street Security Authority (NRSA), has developed an automatic system, christened, "Traffitech-GH", to streamline the enforcement of highway site visitors legal guidelines and rules to enhance highway security in Ghana. The automated system will assist examine …
Bolgatanga — The Motor Site visitors and Transport Division (MTTD) of the Ghana Police Service (GPS), together with the Nationwide Street Security Authority (NRSA), has developed an automatic system, christened, “Traffitech-GH”, to streamline the enforcement of highway site visitors legal guidelines and rules to enhance highway security in Ghana.
The automated system will assist examine the dysfunction, lawlessness and rampant problems with highway site visitors carnage and its related accidents and deaths, as the continual failure by highway customers to adjust to the highway site visitors rules through the years.
Talking at a stakeholders assembly held in Bolgatanga, capital of the Higher East Area, the Director of Training, Analysis and Coaching on the MTTD of the Ghana Police Service, Chief Superintendent Alexander Kwaku Obeng, stated the Traffitech-GH system which had been designed by the Ghana Police Service, in collaboration with different main stakeholders within the nation, significantly the NRSA, would discover the antidote to the ever growing preventable crashes, “with its attendant harm to property, accidents to individuals and the fatalities that include it”.
In response to him, the system had deployed cameras and sensors at strategic areas: in autos, by the highway, amongst others, and it might mechanically take an image or video of autos that flouted highway site visitors legal guidelines and rules, corresponding to breakneck rushing and working of pink lights.
The Traffitech-GH undertaking, he defined, would as well as deploy
mounted, cellular/in-vehicle and radar gun units to seize rushing autos and people who jumped pink lights.
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Footage and movies recorded of the offence are mechanically transmitted to a again workplace for validation and issuance of a notification by SMS to the automobile proprietor for cost, Chief Supt Obeng added.
The Higher East Regional Police Commander, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP), Darko Offei Lomotey, who gave a welcome deal with on behalf of the Inspector Normal of Police (IGP), Dr George Akufo Dampare, stated the implementation of Traffitech-GH automation system was going to deal with the problem of highway site visitors and associated carnage head-on, and pleaded with the general public to assist in seeing to the total implementation of the undertaking.
On his half, the appearing Director Normal of the Nationwide Street Security Authority (NRSA), David Osafo Adonteng, thanked the MTTD for birthing the thought and rolling out the brand new know-how, saying it might improve enforcement of highway site visitors legal guidelines and rules, particularly with the target of minimising highway crashes, accidents and deaths.
He indicated that though the nation had seen some vital enchancment within the discount of highway site visitors crashes within the first half of 2023, as in comparison with the identical interval in 2022, Ghanaians couldn’t boast of the strides, as greater than hundreds of individuals had misplaced their lives following the crashes on the highway.
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