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Dubai motorists warned: Mobile cameras are watching you

Motorists who haphazardly keep changing lanes, change lanes without using indicators or do not leave a safe following distance will be fined and faced with live recordings of the offences.

  • By Alia Al Theeb, Staff Reporter
  • Published: 23:35 June 1, 2008
  • Gulf News

  • Example of offence captured by new technology, driving on the hard shoulder.
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Dubai: Motorists who haphazardly keep changing lanes, change lanes without using indicators or do not leave a safe following distance will soon be fined and faced with live recordings of the offences, a senior police official said on Sunday.

Brig Mohammad Saif Al Zafein, Director of Dubai Police's Traffic Department, said from today motorists will have to be careful of these offences, as well as speeding, not respecting lane lines, using mobile phones and driving on the hard shoulder.

The traffic department will soon start using a mobile camera system by the security company Citytec.

The system, which is used worldwide, will help traffic police record motorists who commit offences.

Two undercover patrol cars will monitor various roads 24 hours a day.

Fines will be issued in absentia based on the video footage.

"One of the best features of the device is that it records the offence and works as evidence in case a motorist objects to the fine," Brig Al Zafein said.

A spokesperson from Citytec said in case of an accident, a police officer will be able to record the accident.

The spokesperson said the device can also be used to train police officers on talking and dealing with motorists when they are pulled over.

Brigadier Al Zafein announced that two undercover police patrols will have the mobile camera system installed in the first phase.

"We will focus on highways and external roads in this phase, as 60 per cent of deaths in road accidents occur on highways," he said.

The mobile camera system consists of a recorder, a control device, a camera, a radar and a screen and it can be installed in any police patrol vehicle.

Brig Al Zafein also announced that in the next six months traffic police will start using speed guns, which are hand-held radars used to catch speeding motorists.

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