Davina (right) showing a cracked motorcycle helmet to Abdul Ghafar (centre) and Bedui. — Photo by Jeffrey Mostapa
KUCHING: Three Automated Enforcement System (AES) cameras will be installed in Sarawak next year.
This was disclosed by Road Safety Department (JKJR) director-general Abdul Ghafar Yusof, who pointed out that they would be the first phase of the installation of the system in the state.
He said the AES cameras would be installed at three areas; namely Jalan Kuching-Serian, Jalan Dato Mohd Musa and Jalan Tg Kidurong.
“The installation of AES cameras is crucial to improve the level of road safety by detecting and recording traffic offences automatically,” he told reporters when met after officiating the Batu Lintang Teachers’ Teaching Institute (IPG) Road Safety Awareness Programme at Tun Ahmad Zaidi Adruce Auditorium in the campus yesterday.
Others present included JKJR Sarawak director Davina Agnes Enteli and Batu Lintang IPG director Bedui Une.
Abdul Ghafar also disclosed that studies on the installation of AES cameras would be carried out by a technical team led by Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research (Miros) in collaboration with the Public Works Department (JKR) and police.
“Identifying locations to install the AES cameras is based on accident-prone location reports by the police.”
Currently, there are 14 AES cameras in operation throughout Peninsular Malaysia.
“We are looking into setting up 37 more of these cameras including three in Sarawak,” he said.
AES is an enabler that embodies all efforts towards achieving the target of Road Safety Plan 2006-2010 to reduce accidental death.
According to JPJ’s website, it is able to automatically detect and record any traffic offences such as beating the traffic light and speeding as soon as they are committed in accident-prone areas where the system is installed.
This electronic enforcement system has been implemented in 90 other countries around the world including Thailand and Vietnam which use a digital traffic enforcement system.