Filenews 29 June 2022 - by Michalis Hadjivassilis
The three-month extension given to the contractor company that installed and manages the photo-tagging system, the well-known cameras of the Traffic Police, expires tomorrow and it remains unknown what will happen next.
Already the contracting authority, which is the Department of Electromechanical Services, has begun to carry out an audit as to whether what was requested in writing by the managing company has been implemented and where we are today. It is noted that the Central Committee for Changes and Requirements at the request of the Electromechanical Service approved a three-month extension to the receipt of the next phase of the system due to problems in the service of extrajudicial and other issues that arose during the implementation of the pilot phase.
According to information from "F", recently there has been an improvement with the sending of extrajudicial documents and that the non-subsidy extrajudicial documents have been reduced, but it still takes time to comply with the legislation, according to which extrajudicial documents should be sent at a specified time, after the registration of the violation, ie in 15 days.
Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos, using the tactic of stick and carrot, has repeatedly stated that the cameras are here to stay, but he did not hesitate to warn the company that we will not move on to the next phase and they will not get a single cent from the state if it does not implement what is provided for in the contract.
In the coming days it will be clear whether the timetables have been met and whether everything that has been requested has been done and by the end of the week a decision will be made on the next steps. It is recalled that the problems that arose from the pilot implementation of the photo-tagging system were examined at a meeting at the Presidential Palace in early June and it was decided to hold a new meeting to clarify the course of things. According to the same information, the service of extrajudicial documents has improved during this period and fines are being sent for last month's violations.
At the moment the extrajudicial documents have exceeded 65,000, since the beginning of the year.
