The government portfolio announced that it will change the function of the devices and will direct them to the detection of stolen vehicles.
He Ministry of Interior will eventually change the function of the mobile radars on national routes and will use them to combat crime, orienting them to the detection of required or stolen vehicles, and not to fine them.
The change in the decision of the government portfolio occurs after last week it was ensured that they were going to be completely removed because, according to the minister of Transportation and Public Works (MTOP), Jose Luis Falero“many times the signaling was not adequate”, and the person behind the wheel “ran into the radar”.
Interior was made of a radar software that will allow it to acquire information in real time and alert on the circulation of vehicles that have a requirement by the Justice or that are committing a violation of transit.
From now on, the mobile radars They will be installed on national routes, as well as departmental streets and avenues, but they will also circulate mounted on police vehicles in urban centers, according to Telemundo.
From the Ministry of the Interior, it was reported that the software is “a license plate reader”, whose “sole task” is to “deploy strategies for the prevention and repression of crimes that involve vehicles, whether motorcycles or all types of motor vehicles “.
The MTOP in the eye of the storm due to the controversy of the 112 radars
After the installation of 112 new inspection radars along national routes by the MTOP was confirmed, the government portfolio is in the eye of the storm after receiving a rain of criticism from political actors and civil society.
The amount of radars installed, as well as the rigorous new speed limits, cause that to get from east point to Montevideo More than 3 hours of travel are needed if these new imposed limits are strictly respected.
the president himself Luis Lacalle Pou He told Falero that he did not want the new radars to become a collection instrument that hit people’s pockets, and that also affected the circulation of vehicles.
For his part, Falero promised to analyze their operation throughout this first month of use, and to reverse the maximum speed limits if necessary.
Source: Ambito
