Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru

Bengaluru, Feb 6: A traffic cop anywhere in the Karnataka will soon be able to access a motorist's violations, with the traffic department planning to implement a unified system across the state.

There are 114 traffic police stations across 30 districts. At present, traffic violation data is registered only in the district traffic police server, not in the state server.

With a unified system, the entire data of traffic violations across the state would be linked to a central server. This enables every traffic police station to access violations of a particular vehicle anywhere in Karnataka. This will help in increasing the penalty as well as bring down traffic violations.

Commissioner for traffic and road safety (additional charge) M A Saleem told media that a unified server will be constructed in the Traffic Management Centre in Bengaluru and separate staff will be hired to run and maintain it.

He further added that 300 personal digital assistant (PDA) will be distributed to traffic police in all districts once the server is installed. The assistant sub-inspectors, sub-inspectors and inspectors will be given special training sessions on using PDAs.

PDAs are handheld devices with in-built printers, cameras and enforcement applications to register traffic violations. The gadgets also take pictures and record videos. The GPS will help record the place and time of the traffic violation.

At present, 44 police stations in Bengaluru and five in Mysuru use PDAs. The Bengaluru traffic police use 625 PDAs and will get 150 more by April this year, he said.