UT police use video cameras to silence traffic violators

When the UT Police started a special drive against the motorists driving dangerously on Monday,they were this time armed with video cameras to silence the violators.

When the UT Police started a special drive against the motorists driving dangerously on Monday,they were this time armed with video cameras to silence the violators. Most often,the violators argue that they had not committed the offence,but were falsely implicated by the policemen. And surprisingly,police claim that nearly 50 percent of traffic offenders deny committing any offence while driving.

But now the video evidence of the violation will silence them and help us to counter this argument, the Deputy Superintendent of Police,Traffic Vijay Kumar said. We have ensured that every police team that is involved in the special drive against those driving dangerously in the city make video of all the violations.

The traffic police in Chandigarh has constituted six teams and in past two days they have booked nearly six hundred motorist for violating the traffic rules. Those booked in the past two days were mostly talking over mobile phone while driving and others were without seat belts. The department also collected a fine of nearly Rs 25,000 from the offenders in past two days.

These teams conducted surprise checks on the interior and busy roads of the city. Top police sources said that the initiative to have the video evidence was not to create fear about the evidence,but to make the violators realize that they had committed an offence and they should not become habitual offenders.

The video evidence is not meant for creating panic among the motorists,but it is for them also to understand where they committed wrong, said a police officer in traffic department.

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