Even though the city traffic police have embraced automated traffic monitoring system by booking traffic violators using CCTV cameras, hand cameras and interceptors, a substantially high percentage of offenders ignore the notices.
While the traffic police issue an average of 3,000 Field Traffic Violation Report (FTVR) notices to offenders every day, barely 18% of them pay the penalty. The remaining 82% ignore them, rue senior traffic police officials.
The FTVR violations are recorded using 40 CCTV cameras at key traffic junctions, six interceptors and about 30 hand cameras given to traffic police personnel.
Officials at the Automated Traffic Management Centre in the city said that the FTVR notices are sent to the addresses of the errant motorists on the basis of the vehicle’s registration number.
Though it is possible that the motorists may not receive the notice if the address against their vehicle is not updated with the Transport Department, the traffic police point out that most offenders are neglecting the FTVR notices.
Police officials said there are more than 7,000 vehicles in Mysuru with more than 20 pending cases of traffic violations against each of them.
During a routine checking of vehicles, the city police came across a motorcycle with more than 200 pending cases of traffic violations. The vehicle was seized by the police. “We have stepped up the manual monitoring of the vehicles to collect the pending traffic violation dues from the offenders,” said Assistant Commissioner of Police (Traffic) N. Madaiah.
The blackberries with the traffic police throws up information of pending cases against the motorist and police will not release the vehicle until the pending fine is paid. The traffic police also books Check Report and Receipt (CRR) cases during manual checking of vehicles.
The number of traffic violation cases booked by the police every day varies on the traffic situation in the city.
“If it is a weekend or there is a lot of tourist flow, the traffic police personnel will not be available for manual checking,” he said.
To check if any traffic offences had been booked against your vehicle, motorists can create a user account in KarnatakaOne portal – www.karnatakaone.gov.in.
The vehicle owners should select the service available under Mysore City and then click on the Collection of Fine for Traffic Violations.
“You can not only see if any offence is booked against your vehicle by keying in the registration number, you can also pay the penalty online,” added a police official.
