Police links data to nab traffic violators

Hyderabad: Hyderabad and Cyberabad police officials are planning to club their e-challan databases to ensure traffic violators don’t escape due to jurisdictional issues.

With the current set-up, traffic violators in Hyderabad city police limits can’t be caught in Cyberabad as they don’t have access to the Hyderabad police data. However, there are cost-sharing issues to be resolved for the maintenance of the data.

Hyderabad and Cyberabad Traffic Police have separate records of vehicles with e-challans pending against them. And with access only to their respective databases, traffic violators in Hyderabad are immune to any type of action in Cyberabad and vice versa.

However, a cost-sharing formula for the sharing of database has to be worked out since a combined database has to be maintained — servers of the Hyderabad police will be used for the purpose.
Once the system is set up, traffic violators will lose their immunity in the city and will be asked to pay all pending challans irrespective of where and by which police they are caught.

“If a traffic violator has five pending challans booked by the Hyderabad traffic police and 10 by Cyberabad police, the whole amount pertaining to the 15 pending challans can be collected wherever the violator is caught, be it in Cyberabad or Hyderabad,” a top Cyberabad police official said, adding that the recovered money is anyways deposited with the government exchequer.

The Administrative Staff College of India has also given the police a cost-sharing formulae. But it is currently on hold due to the ongoing Assembly Session and it is learnt that the Hyderabad Traffic Police is a bit reluctant to go ahead with the project due to reservations with the cost sharing formulae.