Armenian traffic police to use e-system drivers for fining drivers

YEREVAN, April 27. /ARKA/. E-system will be used in Armenia soon for fining drivers for minor traffic offences, Armenian Deputy Police Chief Arthur Osikyan said Wednesday in the National Assembly.

He said electronic radars will be installed on the country’s roads for gauging speed and special video cameras.
“The aim of this innovation is to lessen the traffic police’s contacts with drivers, especially taking into account that the Armenian president, at his recent meeting with police officers, instructed them to speed up installation of video cameras and radars,” Osikyan said.

He said that the results of the tender announced for installation of the system would be summarized soon, and after that step-by-step installation would start.

Installation of radars and video cameras in Yerevan and provinces is planned to be completed by 2017.
The police plans to provide 10 crossroads in Yerevan and roads connecting the capital with provinces with the mentioned equipment.

Osikyan said that the country’s roads would be provided with 200 radars, and 150 crossroads would have video equipment.

An electronic center controlled by the tender winner company will fix all traffic offences until 2013.

The deputy police chief said that if, for example, a car ignores red light, the equipment will fix this and record the car’s license plate through special software and release it as a report, which will be signed by a traffic warden and posted to the car owner.
The new e-system of fining is planned to be introduced this year, Osikyan said. -0-