The traffic police will connect all traffic cameras by the New Year

On Tuesday, the Moscow State Traffic Safety Inspectorate promised to launch “in full” a photo-video recording system for traffic violations by the end of 2011. Kommersant previously reported that fines are sent out from only a third of installed cameras. The State Traffic Inspectorate assured that by the New Year, “letters of happiness” will begin to arrive to drivers from all 150 complexes for recording violations.

According to the Moscow State Traffic Safety Inspectorate, by the end of the year, 150 complexes for recording traffic violations will be fully operational in the city. “Currently, information from 96 cameras is being processed, the remaining complexes are conducting surveillance in test mode, monitoring traffic flows and speed limits,” the department explained.

Let us remind you that cameras recording violations in Moscow began working on October 1. The cameras themselves belong to the Moscow government, but only the traffic police can draw up decisions on violations based on the images received from them and send fines by mail. The State Traffic Inspectorate operates a special center for recording administrative offenses (CAFAP), where, along with 36 operators, inspectors also work. Kommersant reported on December 9 that the photo-video recording system for traffic violations is not operating at full capacity. According to Kommersant’s sources, at that time fines were sent out from approximately 50 cameras out of 150 installed systems. “Already now, TsAFAP is ready to process all incoming information,” the traffic police said on Tuesday.

At the moment, TsAFAP has issued about 100 thousand decisions in cases of administrative offenses detected using cameras, amounting to more than 34 million rubles. The largest number of violations - 89,344 - are related to speeding by 20-40 km/h, in addition, 5839 cases of speeding by 40-60 km/h were identified, as well as 319 cases of exceeding the maximum permitted speed by more than 60 km /h. 4,494 cases related to violations of road sign requirements were also identified.

Ivan Buranov

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