Moldovan Finance Ministry to work out vision of developing system of road traffic's video supervision

Chisinau, 3 January /MOLDPRES/ - Prime Minister Ion Chicu today summoned a meeting to discuss the needed stages and investments, in order to modernize and extend the system of road traffic’s video supervision. Attending the event were Deputy Prime Minister, Finance Minister Serghei Puscuta, Economics and Infrastructure Minister Anatol Usatii and other decision-makers of the Finance Ministry, Interior Ministry (MAI) and State Chancellery, the government’s communication and protocol department has reported.     

The reason for holding the meeting is the large number of traffic accidents and their serious consequences.  

In the beginning of the meeting, the prime minister asked for information on the functionality and performance of the current road video supervision system in the Chisinau municipality. The leadership of MAI’s Information Technology Service (STI) said that the system consisted of 48 obsolete equipments and 15 new equipments, set in December 2018. STI decision-makers informed the PM that the new equipments cost about nine million lei and had brought revenues worth 14 million lei in one year, accounting for only 25 per cent of the infringements processed. Among the problems set forth, there is a difficult process of finding out infringements, lack of road surface marking and poor functionality of the old equipments.     

The experience of the enforcement of the video supervision system proves positive effects in the behavior of the participants in the traffic, cutting the number of traffic accidents in zones monitored, as well as an important financial impact. The MAI leadership informed the prime minister that decision-makers were presently working to elaborate a vision of developing the traffic’s video supervision system first in the Chisinau city, which is to subsequently extend all over Moldova.   

PM Chicu asked the MAI leadership to work out the vision of the video supervision system and submit it for consideration in the first half of February 2020.

 „Please, describe the stages necessary during the system’s modernization in the Chisinau municipality and its extension nationally. We need a clear-cut vision as to the development of the system, its functionality and effects expected. We are interested, as a priority, in the security of the road traffic and cutting in the number of accidents. And only afterwards, we will get interested in the estimative figures of revenues’ collections,” the prime minister said at the end of the meeting.