Roads & Construction
LASG Traffic Cameras Detected 850,000 Violations Says Commissioner
The Lagos State Commissioner for Transportation, Oluwaseun Osiyemi, has disclosed that the use of Automatic Number Plate Recognition cameras helped traffic officers record over 850,000 violations in the state.
“The usage of the ANPR to capture other related traffic offenses e.g. vehicle moving against traffic; the ANPR captured 856,680 violations from January 2023 to March 2024,” he stated.
He added that to reduce human interface, the Traffic Management Solution devices handled by the VIS officers captured 10, 421 violations between January 2023 and March 2024.
The commissioner disclosed this while giving reports of the ministry in commemoration of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s first year in office for a second term as governor.
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Giving an update at the government’s secretariat in Alausa, Ikeja, on Tuesday, Osiyemi said to carry out daily monitoring routine checks through the use of ANPR technology for prescribed particulars violations, 53 of the ANPR cameras were installed at different locations in the state.
He also said traffic officers made use of hand-held devices for enforcement of regulations on rickety vehicles, overloaded vehicles, blacklisted vehicles, unauthorized/illegal and unregistered vehicles, etc.