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Lagos Deploys Number Plate Detection Device To Track Traffic Offenders
The Lagos State government has launched a number plate detection platform, PayVIS, which will capture vehicle offenders whenever they violate traffic laws and then bill them.
PayVIS is an initiative of the Lagos State Vehicle Inspection Service. Traffic cameras located beside traffic lights will capture traffic offenders without the presence of traffic officials on the roads.
According to the information contained in the website of PayVis, the platform, ‘PlateDetect,’ is a traffic analytics and access control application developed for Lagos State’s Vehicle Inspection Service to track, monitor, and book traffic offenders.
The VIS’s PlateDetect ensures that all vehicle documentation (vehicle license, insurance policy, roadworthiness certificate, driver’s license, hackney permit (commercial vehicles only), and Lagos State Drivers’ Institute card (commercial vehicles) can be verified and tickets raised for violators.
To check whether you may have had a prior traffic offence, vehicle owners are advised to visit their website: www.payvis.ng, type in their plate number and then click on search. Once this is done, a bill is generated for any outstanding offence.
On its social media page, the Vehicle Inspection Service (VIS) said that it would be showing an understanding of the current economic situation to exhibit fairness and good faith by offering a 50 per cent rebate on existing unpaid fines from January 1 to 31, 2021. Offenders are advised to take the opportunity of the period to pay up, as a 100 per cent penalty would be payable after the deadline.
MEANWHILE, motorists in Lagos State are expected to take their vehicles to any of the state’s computerised vehicle inspection centres after obtaining their roadworthiness certificate. According to the VIS, any motorist who obtains a roadworthiness certificate now has a 30-day window to bring the vehicle for inspection.
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