Traffic Police install surveillance cameras at two intersections

The Traffic Police installed video surveillance cameras at the intersections of Vasile Alecsandri Street with Sciusev and Kogalniceanu streets. The surveillance is still in trial mode, so that drivers and pedestrians who break the traffic rules will be penalized only with warnings, Info-Prim Neo reports. Sergiu Armasu, head of the Traffic Police Department, announced at a press conference on Tuesday, September 20, that the testing stage would be carried out for two months. “At this stage, we cannot fine any driver because the equipment doesn’t correspond to the legal frame. We can only warn them. The project will be developed and we’ll be able to apply penalties to drivers and other traffic participants that break the rules”, he declared. Sergiu Armasu explained that the project’s goal is to increase traffic safety, to diminish corruption, to decrease the number of traffic accidents, to ensure the equality of all traffic participants before the law and improve the surveillance of public order. The new system will register the infringements of the Traffic Regulation without the involvement of a traffic officer. The latter’s role will be to issue protocols about the infringement to the one who committed them, as stated by the law. According to Armasu, a dispatcher will be created at the Department to monitor intersections and places where accidents happen more frequently. As soon as the technology will make it possible to register car plates, they will the automatically checked in the database and the owner of the vehicle will be identified. Sergiu Armasu conceded that cars with foreign plates would pose a problem as they can’t be found in the database. However, the police will work on this issue and find a solution. The system was proposed by the Traffic Police Department in cooperation with its social partners in the traffic safety domain, Media Security and StarNet, as part of a pilot project.