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The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), with help from the Bloomberg Initiative for Global Road Safety (BIGRS), has introduced six new speed identification gadgets to the Accra Central Motor Traffic and Transport Department (MTTD) of the Ghana Police Service to implement regulations on speed limit in the city.
The TruCAM II gadget is an extreme traffic and speed implementation laser gadget with a video that gives a high-goal picture and shows the tag number.
The gadget, which is something beyond a speed requirement gadget, can likewise assist with distinguishing other criminal traffic offenses, for example, following too intently, forceful driving, abuse of assigned paths, occupied driving, hindering traffic and safety belt infringement, among others.
Talking at a concise service at the Accra City Hall to officially introduce the things to the Police, the Metropolitan Chief Executive of Accra, Elizabeth Kwatsoe Tawiah Sackey, said the gifts would go quite far to guarantee impressive skill in upholding speed rules in Accra, particularly following the new flood in street crashes.
"Today, AMA along with its worldwide accomplices, the Bloomberg Initiative for Global Road Safety (BIGRS) is here to exhibit our purpose to assist with checking this unnecessary loss of lives on our streets. In this season when street crashes flourish, it is vital to help the Police MTTD with gadgets so they can appropriately and expertly authorize speed in Accra," she said.
She added that discoveries from the AMA Road Safety Report demonstrated that detailed street traffic passings expanded from 103 out of 2019 to 136 out of 2020, addressing a 32% expansion; subsequently, the need to implement the guidelines on speeding to overwhelmingly check the issue.
"Street crash and injury measurements recount the condition of street crashes in the city of Accra… this loans belief to the worldwide expectation of an expansion in street car accidents and passings throughout the following 10 years, in the event that state run administrations don't set up pressing purposeful activity to stop the bloodletting."
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