Hyderabad traffic violators, beware of tech eye

HYDERABAD: Traffic violators beware, city police are going high-tech for better traffic management. Believing that non-contact enforcement through use of advance technology will increase efficacy of the police and help them catch traffic violators in bigger numbers, cops are modernising the traffic management system with advance systems like the multi-purpose Automated Red Light Violation Detection (ARLVD) and Automatic Number Place Recognition System (ANPRS).
As of now, police have 10 automated red light violation detection systems installed at various important traffic junctions like KCP, Jubilee checkpost, Road No.1/10 of Banjara Hills, Sweekar Upkaar, KBR Park, Ravindra Bharati and Srinagar Colony ‘T’ Junction. The present system, through its cameras, captures the vehicle number plate of the offenders who jump traffic signal and also those who violate the stopline rule.
Hyderabad police are now procuring 25 more such systems, this time with advance features like overspeeding and wrong side driving detection capabilities. “The new system will be able to identify four kinds of traffic rule violations including signal jumping, stopline violation, overspeeding and wrong-side driving. The violator’s vehicle registration number will be captured and an e-challan dispatched to his or her address,” additional CP (traffic) Jitender said.
At present, Hyderabad police are testing cashless traffic enforcement method at various places in the city where an offender is made to pay the fine by swiping their debit/credit cards in the GPRS enabled PDAs available with the enforcing official or by visiting Mee Seva counter or traffic compounding booth. While analyzing the impact of cashless enforcement on public, police are simultaneously emphasizing on the non-contact enforcement practices like ARLVD and e-challans.
Once the non-contact enforcement comes into practice fully, police are planning to incorporate ANPRS into enforcement mechanism where an offender who does not pay e-challans will be identified when he moves on the street. The wanted offender’s number plate details will be fed into the ANPRS system, which will then analyze the live feed coming from various surveillance cameras installed across the city and issue alerts if the offender’s vehicle is on the road.
As of now, there are 350 traffic surveillance cameras in the city and recently the Telangana home minister announced that Rs 70 crore has been allotted for purchase and installation of 1,000 CCTV surveillance cameras in the core city and outskirts.