Delhi to get more traffic cameras to detect violations going mostly unpunished so far

The Delhi Traffic Police is in the process of installing 328 new cameras with features that will detect multiple violations simultaneouslyincluding helmet-less riding, driving without seatbelt, using a mobile phone and even track vehicles by their appearance, senior officers aware of the development have said.

- Karn Pratap Singh

The new cameras will plug into a system through which challans are generated automatically, help catch those driving on the wrong side, and - in a first-catch two-wheeler violations that existing cameras cannot at the moment.

Traffic police officials said the new cameras are likely to be installed and become functional by June this year.

"The new cameras that we are in the process of procuring and installing have many added features. It will reduce human intervention in traffic violation detection and issuing challans.

The manpower involved in such jobs will be used for traffic regulation, which will certainly improve vehicular movement and ensure lesser traffic snarls on the city's roads," said special commissioner of police (traffic zone-2) Ajay Choudhary.

These new devices will nearly double the number of traffic cameras deployed across the national Capital from 334 to 662, and will help the traffic police minimise deployment of personnel for manual checks.

Of these 328 new cameras, 203 will be installed at 57 locations as part of the Red-Light Violation Detection (RLVD) project, while the remaining 125 cameras will be for the OverSpeed Violation Detection (OSVD) project, and will be installed at 76 locations. RLVD cameras, as the name suggests, are mounted at key intersections while OSVD cameras are aimed at open stretches where speeding is often a problem.