Goodbye police checkpoints, hello cameras & mobile cops

Each police station to send out mobile police officers with cameras to take photos of traffic violators & then will issue tickets from police station.

ROAD SAFETY & LAW ENFORCEMENT

Goodbye checkpoints, hello mobile traffic cops with cameras

18/01/2017
Post Reporters

Cameras will be repositioned around the city to help curb a wider range of traffic violations.

The new cameras should also cut the rate of arguments between police and motorists when motorists are caught red-handed with photographic evidence.

Altogether, 88 police stations in Bangkok have been ordered to prepare cameras and other devices for monitoring traffic violations more broadly.

This is according to Jirapat Phumjit, deputy chief of the Metropolitan Police Bureau (MPB) who oversees traffic regulations in the city.

LESS CHECKPOINTS, MORE EFFICIENT LAW ENFORCEMENT

There will be less police checkpoints slowing traffic and creating traffic jams on city streets in the future.

At most, checkpoints should be set up every other day and there should also not be two on the same road or in the same area.

Handheld cameras will be employed in an effort to catch more motorists breaking traffic regulations.

The cameras must be able to take clear photos of license plate numbers with the day, time and location where the photo of the traffic violation was taken.

The police chiefs of individual police stations will have the authority to choose locations to place police officers with cameras. This includes positioning officers at one place as well as mobile police patrols. Static checkpoints are simply unable to catch and issue tickets for a lot of violations. 

RUNNING RED LIGHTS & MOTORCYCLES ON SIDEWALKS: LAW ENFORCEMENT TARGETS

Motorcycles driving on sidewalks on sidewalks (especially speeding and endangering the lives of pedestrians), driving in the wrong direction, driving without helmets, illegally driving on expressways will all be law enforcement targets.

Cars running red lights, overtaking and cutting in a dangerous illegal fashion and those cutting in at bridges will also be law enforcement targets.

The traffic violation photos will be processed at each police station and tickets sent out to violators from the station.

More fines and more efficient law enforcement are expected from these new measures.
 
VIRAL VIDEO CLIP OF TRAFFIC VIOLATOR ARGUING WITH POLICE

Pol Maj Gen Jirapat said he hopes the new measure would help reduce arguments between police and people who violate traffic laws.

The new measure came after a video clip went viral online, drawing criticism from the internet users. 

The clip showed a traffic police officer arguing with a driver at a checkpoint over a ticket he received (see here):

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/964212-less-checkpoints-and-handheld-cameras-as-bangkok-police-aim-to-stop%C2%A0public-catching-them-out-on-social-media/

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/general/1181949/traffic-cameras-get-new-brief-as-police-widen-net

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