Soon there will be no place for those violating traffic rules to run. The picture of a vehicle that has jumped a signal, spotted in a no-parking zone or involved in any other offence will be clicked by the constable concerned and the owner sent a fine notice, as part of a 'beat challan' system planned by the traffic police.
This, say police, is an improvisation of the e-challan system that paid rich dividends in terms of revenue. The traffic police now book 10,000 cases a day for violations against the earlier figure of 3,000-4,000 cases a day. "The e-challan system is a foolproof way to avoid bribing," said a police officer.
Now, traffic constables will be provided with GPRS-enabled hand-held devices with built-in camera to capture images of traffic-violating vehicles and send the images to the control room where an automatic challan will be generated.
"We plan to buy 500 such gadgets and hand them over to all traffic head constables and constables patrolling the roads," the officer said. Once an image is received by the command centre in the control room at the commissioner's office, the address of the vehicle's owner will be verified with the help of a tracking system from the RTO database. A challan will be generated and sent to the violator's address with details of the place, date and time of the violation and a photograph of the vehicle.
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