Swedish Sensys Traffic AB to introduce electronic system in Armenia for fining drivers

YEREVAN, July 21. /ARKA/. Swedish Sensys Traffic AB company, in cooperation with Armenian Security Dream company will introduce an electronic system in Armenia for fining drivers, Armenian Deputy Police Chief Arthur Osikyan said on Thursday. 

He told journalists that the system costs €9.849 million.

Under the agreement, the Swedish company will introduce software and necessary equipment. 

“The program is intended for 25 years,” Osikyan said. “However, the company will develop and launch a center for recording traffic offences. Surveillance cameras will be installed on ten crossroads in Yerevan, and radars will be put on 15 roads connecting capital with provinces.”

Osikyan said the center will record about 30 kinds of traffic breaches, which carry fines ranging from 3,000 to 20,000 drams. 

The investor will receive up to 70% of the fine registered by the center, and 50% after return of investments. The remaining money will be sent to the government budget. “The new system will lessen contacts between drivers and traffic wardens and will prevent subjectivism and impunity of some people,” Osikyan said. 

He also said that the system will be operated by the investor company. 

The program implies installment of 200 radars. About 80 crossroads will be under constant automatic surveillance.

It doesn’t mean that the road police department will cut jobs. The road police officers will be transferred to other areas, Osikyan said. 

Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan, speaking Thursday at the Cabinet’s meeting, called this a long-waited event “that will enable the road police to conduct monitoring and impose sanctions”. 

According to the police’s figures, the fines levied for traffic violation to be in the center’s focus totaled AMD 2009 million hitting a record high, while in 2010 the road police reported contraction in minor traffic offences and paid fines. ($1 = AMD 366.46).-0----