Visitors cameras community pays off, violations halved since they went ‘stay’

Police are comfortable to see the site visitors cameras community paying off contemplating that violations have dropped by half ever because the system went ‘stay’ in Cyprus on January 1.

That is compared to the interval throughout which they have been used on a pilot foundation, that’s from October 25, 2021 to January 1, 2022.

Visitors cameras would document roughly 1,800 violations every day in comparison with round 900 a day now, deputy site visitors chief Harris Evripidou informed MPs on Thursday.

Nonetheless, violations recorded inside simply first 40 days of the system’s operation are over 30,000 and this isn’t a quantity to not be underestimated.

Evripidou stated that when extra cameras are put in then the out-of-court fines will change into a mountain excessive and onerous to be processed.

The fines are being despatched by registered mail along with hyperlinks and passwords to an internet site the place offenders can see particulars of the site visitors offence in addition to pictures.

The positive have to be paid inside 30 days in any other case it should rise by half and have to be paid inside 45 days. If it isn’t paid by then, the case can be despatched to courtroom.