Digitizing “cold” fines

The Traffic Police Department for Roads – Railways, Ho Chi Minh City Police has just run a test of the Official Account information channel “Ho Chi Minh City RRD-RTS Traffic Police Department” on the Zalo social networking platform. Thanks to the direct link with the National Public Service Portal, users accessing this Zalo page can look up violation information via images (digitize the “cold” fine), and pay fines online quickly.

Support as “VAR” in traffic

Digitizing “cold” fines is considered a great step forward in applying science and technology to monitoring, controlling and handling administrative violations of traffic order and safety and is being replicated. in Ho Chi Minh City.

Monitor traffic situation through camera system at Traffic Command and Traffic Light Control Team. Photo: TRAN NAM

The Traffic Command and Traffic Light Control Team (referred to as the CHGT Team) under the Road and Railway Traffic Police Department, Ho Chi Minh City Police is receiving data from more than 500 traffic monitoring cameras installed on the road. key routes. In which, there are 9 speed monitoring cameras arranged on National Highway 1, National Highway 22, Hanoi Highway, Nguyen Van Linh, Thu Thiem tunnel, Cat Lai overpass, Phu My overpass and system cameras on 14 inner city streets. Surveillance system is arranged to record 24/24 hours. In which, there is a recording system applying artificial intelligence (AI) capable of detecting and identifying violating vehicles, which is fully automated. These high-quality cameras are capable of digitizing, recognizing license plates and information about the offending vehicle. Continuous data processing system, which can be used for “hot” or “cold” penalty because of very fast detection and processing time; capable of detecting and handling many violators at the same time, handling multiple lanes and number plates. In case there is no “hot” penalty condition, the data will be reported to the competent authority to organize verification, send a violation notice to the vehicle owner, to the police agency where the violation is detected. to solve.

This smart surveillance camera technology is likened to “VAR” (video technology to assist referees in football) traffic because the evidence of violations is automatically rendered in the form of images, clearly showing the violation process. violation and license plate information of the offending vehicle. In addition to images, the system also stores videos recording the process of violating vehicles for later search. Upon receiving the notice, the vehicle owner will go to the CHGT Team to verify the error. After the car owner accepts the fault, the traffic police make a record and issue a sanctioning decision. In case the vehicle owner is not the driver of the violating vehicle, he/she must “track down” the person who drove the violating vehicle that he/she owns. If the car owner cannot find it, according to Article 80 of Decree 100, the car owner must pay a fine. In case after 15 days, the violator does not come to implement the sanctioning decision, the traffic police will send an appointment reminder; but still do not pay the fine, the car will not be registered. In 2021, Ho Chi Minh City Traffic Police extracted violations of more than 110,000 cases; mainly errors of stopping and parking illegally, speeding, entering prohibited roads, not obeying signs and lights… In which, there were 25,026 cases of fines, with an amount of nearly 29 billion dong.

Major Le Hong Phuong, deputy captain of the traffic police team, said that the application of “cold” fine technology has actively supported traffic police forces to detect, promptly and strictly handle violations. traffic violation. Thereby, contributing to raising the awareness of road users to obey traffic safety regulations.

Look up and pay the “cold” fine quickly

In addition to the application of technology to punish traffic violations, the fine payment process is also gradually digitized, the lookup of traffic violations through images has been made easy. With a smartphone, users who enter the vehicle’s control plate can look up the “cold” fine information quickly.

Specifically, through the chatbox of the Official Account “Traffic Division of the RRD-HCMC police”, users access the “Look up image violations” on the “Menu”. At the screen page “Looking up errors”, the searcher enters the license plate number of the vehicle they want to find information and confirmation code according to the instructions. Then press “Search” to get the results. Or, the sender of the search request can also sign up to receive violation notifications via email.

In addition, violators (or authorized persons) can also pay “cold” fines online. To do this, the fine payer must register an account on the National Public Service Portal. Through the chatbox of the Zalo account “Traffic Division of the RRD-HCMC police station”, the user selects the item “Paying administrative fines online” on the link menu. Then enter “Decision number” and “Security code”, select “Lookup”. For the case of paying and receiving results at the sanctioning agency, the user selects “Pay and receive results at the sanctioning agency”. Enter payer information as required, click “Payment”. The system will ask to choose a bank like Vietcombank, VietinBank… or a payment intermediary like VNPTPay, Momo. Continue to log in as required, the user will complete the steps with a successful payment confirmation. At this time, users can download the receipt to their computer or phone to present when receiving the temporary papers at the sanctioning agency.

For the case of paying online and receiving results at home, the user selects “Pay and receive results at home”. During the payment process, users can change the receiving address according to their needs. Similar to registering to receive results at the sanctioning agency, the steps to pay the fine online and receive the results at home are also ended with a payment confirmation notice.