Traffic fine tickets to offender’s door-step soon: Ministry

The Police will soon introduce a system to identify traffic offenders through traffic surveillance system and to send fine papers to the offenders' home, the Public Security Ministry said.

They said the police together with the Department of Motor Traffic and the Attorney General's Department are working to put system in place.

Public Security Minister Sarath Weerasekera recently inspected the CCTV Division which covers 33 streets in the city of Colombo.

This division was established in 2010 to carry out to monitor traffic movements.

The Ministry said under the existing technology, the action taken against traffic offenders is slow and a system to send traffic fine tickets to the offenders' home will be initiated soon.(Darshana Sanjeewa Balasuiya)