The Ghana Police Service has deployed officers and cameras across the country as the TraffiTech-GH digital traffic enforcement system begins operations on Sunday, November 1, 2026.
The system is designed to detect traffic violations, particularly speeding, and issue electronic violation notices to vehicle owners.
The rollout comes amid threats by commercial transport operators to suspend services nationwide from November 1 in protest against the implementation of the system.
Under the system, cameras mounted in police vehicles and on tripods will capture speeding violations. The Motor Traffic and Transport Department (MTTD) will process the footage and issue electronic notices to vehicle owners through text messages.
The messages, which will carry the sender identification GPS, will contain details of the alleged offence, including the vehicle’s registration number, the date, time and location of the violation, as well as a link to view the accompanying video evidence.
Speaking in an interview on Channel One TV’s Breakfast Daily on Sunday, the Director of Education, Research and Training at the MTTD, ACP Alexander Kwaku Obeng, said the police had completed the deployment and expected motorists to comply with the prescribed speed limits.
He said public education efforts would continue but cautioned motorists against assuming they could flout traffic regulations without being detected.
“We have deployed. We hope people will be admonished, and our sensitisation has gone down well with vehicle owners and, in particular, drivers,” he said.
“Anybody who ignores the warning and thinks that the road is straight and flat and thinks that police are not there, I want to say we are there. We are there; our vehicles are embedded with the cameras,” he added.
ACP Obeng said the police expected motorists to observe the prescribed speed limits of 50 kilometres per hour in built-up areas, 90 kilometres per hour on highways and 100 kilometres per hour on motorways.
He warned that speeding remained a major contributor to road traffic casualties, accounting for about 60 per cent of deaths and serious injuries.
“We expect that drivers will be moderate in their speeds and comply with the general speed limits that are imposed on them,” he said.
ACP Obeng further disclosed that the MTTD had issued more than 70,000 caution notices to motorists between September 10 and October 31 as part of efforts to prepare the public for the digital enforcement system.
He said the department had now moved beyond issuing caution notices and would begin enforcing traffic regulations through electronic detection and violation notices.
“Now we are not in the caution notice mode, but we are in deterrent mode, where if you commit an offence under Regulation 242: Automated Road Traffic Offences and Fines, that requires that we deploy these cameras,” he said.
He explained that once an offence was captured, the MTTD would gather and process the evidence before sending an electronic notice to the registered owner of the vehicle.
The notice will contain the vehicle owner’s name, registration number, time and location of the offence, the applicable traffic regulation and the prescribed penalty.
ACP Obeng said vehicle owners would have two weeks from receipt of the notices to pay the applicable fines.
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