Mumbai Traffic Police officers have begun a new drive in a bid to recover e-challans from violators by visiting their homes. The drive started on Tuesday, June 15, and in the three days since, police constables said that they came across cooperative citizens that were willing to pay their fines. Fines from traffic violations amount to more than ₹400 crores, and officials have devised new methods to recover them.
The traffic police established 25 teams of two constables each to collect the fines. Constables have generated a list of over 25,000 people with the highest violations. Such violators owe more than ₹10,000 each in fines.
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“After training, the 50 constables attended a briefing by Joint Commissioner of Police (traffic) Yashasvi Yadav. Then the orders in the matter were issued,” an officer said while speaking to mid-day.
“The order has been issued after holding discussions on the home visits with Mumbai’s commissioner of police,” the officer added.
These groups of constables who visit the violators’ homes have been trained to approach and talk to the violators appropriately. While one constable will do the talking, the other constable will wear a body camera to record the recovery process. Officials said that constables have been asked to speak to the violators respectfully while addressing them as sir/madam.
In case a violator is unhappy with the way he/she was treated, officials can go back to the body camera footage to confirm.
Senior officials have been discussing ways to recover pending fines from violators over the past few months. Late last year, they were even considering the appointment of recovery agents to collect the pending dues but have now reached a more reasonable solution. In January this year, traffic police reached out to the RTO to cancel the driving licenses of citizens that refuse to pay the fines.
The Joint Commissioner of Police (Traffic) Yashasvi Yadav said, “People who violate traffic rules are fined, but they do not pay up and continue to break rules. We appeal to the people to follow traffic rules. If traffic police come to your house to collect fines, then cooperate with them.”
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