The National Police’s Traffic Corps has warned that strict sanctions will be imposed on drivers who remove their vehicle number plates to avoid getting an electronic ticket.
The warning follows similar violations committed by some Probolinggo motorists.
“For motorists who do not use plates or use fake license plates, they will (be processed by) special research management of the National ETLE (electronic traffic law enforcement),” director of law enforcement of Traffic Corps, Brigadier General Aan Suhanan, said on Friday.
In order to discipline drivers using fake license plates or removing them, supervision and measures to educate people are being pursued.
Suhanan said that the locations where such vehicles have been observed will be the targets of traffic operations.
The police’s traffic operations range from Zebra Operations, Obedient Operations, Ketupat Operations, and Candle Operations, which are carried out at the end of each year.
“The crossing locations of these fake plate vehicles will become targets for traffic operations,” he informed.
Police officers can still take firm action on drivers of vehicles without license plates and impose sanctions electronically, he said.
Further, the Traffic Corps has introduced a new facial recognition feature on ETLE cameras. The feature is aimed at optimizing the ETLE system to take better action against drivers who do not use license plates or use fake ones. The data obtained via the feature will be sent to special research management of the National ETLE.
Suhanan said that the Traffic Corps is working with the National Police’s Criminal Investigation Unit and the Directorate General of Civil and Civil Registration regarding the facial recognition feature.
“For those without a license plate, we can still get driver data with facial recognition (FR) features from the Indonesia Automatic Fingerprint Identification System and the Directorate General of Civil and Civil Registration. We can forward this to the work units related to personal searches,” he informed.
So far, more than 280 static ETLE systems and another 800 mobile ELTE systems have been installed to issue tickets to traffic violators, while 50 mobile ETLE systems have been integrated with traffic police operational cars.
Suhanan stressed that even though manual ticketing has come to an end, law enforcement against traffic violations will still be conducted by the Traffic Corps.
Furthermore, he said that law enforcement against traffic violations is aimed at increasing public compliance with existing regulations while ensuring the protection and safety of people on the road.
National Police chief, General Listyo Sigit Prabowo, has instructed the Traffic Corps to optimize static and mobile ETLEs and reduce manual ticketing to prevent extortion.
The instruction has been outlined in the chief of the National Police’s Telegram Letter Number: ST/2264/X/HUM.3.4.5./2022 dated October 18, 2022, and signed by the head of the National Police Traffic Corps, Inspector General Firman Shantyabudi.
Source: Antara News