In a bid to prevent overspeeding and reckless driving on the city's roads, the Delhi Police on Tuesday launched eleven new interceptor vehicles which can track speeding vehicles through laser-based cameras.
Flagging off these interceptors from the India Gate lawns, Delhi Police Commissioner Amulaya Patnaik said he was confident that the new system will add teeth to technology based prosecution.
Special Commissioner of Police (Traffic) Ajay Kashyap said: "These BSIV emission standards complaint interceptor are capable of intercepting over-speeding vehicles in the range of 0-250 km per hour. With these interceptors which can also operate in the night, police are hoping to increase the number of challans and also bring down speed-related road fatalities."
Nearly 52,000 challans have been issued for over-speeding in 2017 so far, he said.
The laser-based cameras fitted in these vehicles can generate a challan in two seconds and identify a speeding vehicle in a lane full of vehicles, said Kashyap, adding the interceptors can work in all light conditions and produce a photograph of the speeding vehicles registration number plate with its GPS coordinates with time and place.
--IANS
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