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Street surveillance cameras assist traffic police
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IN order to deal with traffic offenses from bike riders more efficiently, Shanghai traffic police are increasingly assisted by their colleagues at police stations.
Such is the case in the Zhangjiang area of Pudong New Area, where police officers in the monitor room of the police station inform traffic policemen of offenses they spot from street surveillance cameras.
On Wednesday morning, the traffic policeman at the crossroads of Jinke Road and Zuchongzhi Road was called 20 times by his colleagues who informed him via radio of traffic offenses from bikers on Jinke Road.
Most offenses were from bike riders who took the bike lane in the wrong direction on the west side of Jinke Road between Chenhui Road and Zuchongzhi Road for shortcuts.
Liu Ming, an official from the traffic police in charge of this area, said about 20 offenses are spotted from street surveillance cameras every morning during rush hours.
Due to the constant shortage of traffic policemen in Shanghai, there was only one traffic policeman at this busy crossroads and none in a few nearby ones.
The policeman was assisted by a few traffic assistants, but he’s the only one who has the authority to enforce the traffic law while his assistants can only help to stop offenders.
“Some bike riders are less aware of the traffic law when they see no traffic policemen around, and through this effort we hope to educate and punish more offenders,” Liu said.
People on segways and skateboards who use the bike lane are also targeted by the police, but Liu said punishments to those people now range from admonition, 50 yuan (US$7) of fine and seizing of the transportation tools.
“Using segways and skateboards on an open street poses danger to users themselves and other traffic participants,” he said.
Gong Dao’an, the new head of the Shanghai Public Security Bureau, said in a recent interview with People’s Daily that the city’s ongoing crackdown on traffic offenses from last year has yielded significant results but it needs to better address the “new problem of rampant offenses from bike riders and pedestrians.”
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