Islamabad to implement new e-Challan system against traffic violations
The Islamabad Capital Territory Police (ICTP) has made the decision to develop and implement an electronic system to punish lawbreakers in order to curb escalating traffic offences.
The new e-system will penalise vehicle owners automatically for a variety of offences. According to Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Dr Mustafa Tanveer, the department is working to bring the ICTP challan system up to the line with world standards. He added, “Keeping pace with technological advancement, we decided to launch an automatic system with lesser human involvement to control the traffic violations issue.”
When a violation happens, the CCTV will take a picture of the vehicle’s licence plate. To track violations and respond appropriately, the agency has integrated thorough traffic laws into the system.
Tanveer clarified that violations will be tracked using the codes provided to each offence by the system-connected CCTV. The system will be updated with the discovered vehicle registration numbers, and the owners of the vehicles will be charged automatically.
The offenders’ cars will be seized and declared total if they don’t pay their challans within a set amount of time. Tanveer stated that in order to get information about registered vehicles, ICTP got in touch with every provincial excise and taxation department.
Islamabad to implement new e-Challan system against traffic violations
Tanveer said that, initially, only Islamabad and Punjab numbers would be added to this system. He added, “As per an assessment, most of the vehicles plying in the ICT are having registration with Islamabad and Punjab respectively, that’s why only these both stations are yet made part of strategy.”
Tanveer said that ICTP will integrate the remaining provinces’ registration databases once the system becomes fully operational.
