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Bolgatanga — The Motor Site visitors and Transport Division (MTTD) of the Ghana Police Service (GPS), at the side of the Nationwide Highway Security Authority (NRSA), has developed an automatic system, christened, “Traffitech-GH”, to streamline the enforcement of highway site visitors legal guidelines and laws to enhance highway security in Ghana.
The automated system will assist verify 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 laws over time.
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, notably the NRSA, would discover the antidote to the ever rising preventable crashes, “with its attendant harm to property, accidents to individuals and the fatalities that include it”.
In accordance with 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 laws, corresponding to breakneck dashing and working of purple lights.
The Traffitech-GH venture, he defined, would as well as deploy
fastened, cellular/in-vehicle and radar gun gadgets to seize dashing autos and people who jumped purple 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 fee, Chief Supt Obeng added.
The Higher East Regional Police Commander, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP), Darko Offei Lomotey, who gave a welcome tackle on behalf of the Inspector Basic of Police (IGP), Dr George Akufo Dampare, stated the implementation of Traffitech-GH automation system was going to handle the problem of highway site visitors and associated carnage head-on, and pleaded with the general public to assist in seeing to the complete implementation of the venture.
On his half, the appearing Director Basic of the Nationwide Highway 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 laws, 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 1000’s of individuals had misplaced their lives following the crashes on the highway.
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