The Ghana Police Service has deployed officers and speed-detection cameras nationwide as the TraffiTech-GH digital traffic enforcement system begins operations, with motorists facing electronic violation notices for speeding and other traffic offences.
The system, which commenced on Sunday, November 1, 2026, uses cameras mounted in police vehicles and on tripods to capture traffic violations. The Motor Traffic and Transport Department (MTTD) will process the footage and send electronic notices to vehicle owners through text messages.
Speaking in an interview, 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 prescribed speed limits.
“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.
He cautioned motorists against assuming they could violate traffic regulations without being detected, stressing that police vehicles had been equipped with cameras.
“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.
Under the enforcement system, motorists who commit traffic offences will receive text messages bearing the sender identification GPS. The notices will contain details of the alleged offence, including the vehicle’s registration number, date, time and location of the violation, alongside a link to view the accompanying video evidence.
ACP Obeng said motorists were expected 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 identified speeding as a major contributor to road traffic casualties, accounting for approximately 60 per cent of deaths and serious injuries.
The MTTD director further disclosed that the department had issued more than 70,000 caution notices to motorists between September 10 and October 31 as part of public education and preparations for the digital enforcement system.
He said the department had now moved from issuing caution notices to enforcing traffic regulations through automated detection and electronic 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 the MTTD would collect and process evidence of detected offences before issuing electronic notices to the registered owners of the vehicles involved.
The notices will contain the vehicle owner’s name, registration number, time and location of the offence, the applicable traffic regulation and the prescribed penalty.
Vehicle owners will have two weeks from receipt of the notices to pay the applicable fines.
The rollout comes amid threats by commercial transport operators to suspend services nationwide from November 1 in protest against the implementation of the digital enforcement system.
