29 ANPR cameras installed in Tiruchi City to check traffic violations
A total of 29 Automatic Number Plate Recognition cameras embedded with Intelligent Traffic Management software has been installed at various places in Tiruchi City to identify and check various types of traffic violations.
Commissioner of Police, Tiruchi N. Kamini commissioned the ANPR cameras on Wednesday which have been installed at the nine check posts, West Boulevard Road and Ramakrishna Bridge. The advanced cameras had been installed to book helmet rule violations; not wearing seat belts in cars, triple riding and riding on no-entry roads in the city.
Twenty-one of these cameras would be to identify the registration numbers of two-wheelers driven by riders without wearing helmets and those two-wheelers in which three persons were riding, a police press release said. Six other cameras would be used for identifying seat belt violation and two others to check no-entry violations, the release said.
The Tiruchi City Police has been provided with 35 new version Body Worn Cameras by the State police headquarters. The Body Worn Cameras would be used for monitoring traffic movement and during major bandobusts, said police sources. The gadgets are to be provided to the Traffic Police personnel, police sources said.
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