The city police will soon launch a special drive under which the beat police personnel will be sent to the houses of those who have violated traffic rules and ignored FTVR (Field Traffic Violation Report) notices.
The personnel will be sent to collect the penalty and if the offenders do not cooperate, the vehicles will be seized, the police said.
Offenders are booked not only by policemen, who check vehicles on the roads, but also by traffic police personnel equipped with hand-held cameras and the footage captured by the CCTV cameras installed at vantage locations across the city.
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Based on the photographic evidence, the police send FTVR notices to the address of the vehicle owner as per the Registration Certificate. The owners of the vehicles, who receive the notice, are expected to pay the penalty at the nearest station.
“But a whopping 60% of the offenders have ignored the notices and failed to pay the penalty,” said Deputy Commissioner of Police (Traffic and Crime) Vikram Amathe.
The city police, who have taken serious note of the offenders’ failure to pay the fine, will launch the special drive under the leadership of Mr. Amathe soon. In a statement here, the police have appealed to traffic offenders to pay the penalty as soon as they receive the FTVR notice by post.
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The special drive has been taken up in the wake of the police recently stumbling upon a two-wheeler against which 635 cases had been booked during the last three years. The owner apparently chose to abandon the vehicle instead of paying the fine amount, which was more than ₹63,000.
To start with, the police have compiled a list of vehicles against which more than 20 traffic violation cases have been booked.
According to the police officials, there were more than 10,000 vehicles in the city which have over 20 cases booked against them each.
Meanwhile, instructions have also been issued to traffic police officials, who check vehicles on the road, to recover all the pending fines against vehicles.