October 11, 2005
By Anish Abraham
CITY motorists can now avoid getting a nasty surprise at a metro police roving roadside checkpoint - an innovative, web-based system is up-and-running that displays all their outstanding summonses and warrants of arrest.
The service, called Traffic Fines: Outstanding Summonses and Warrants,
was launched on 11 October and can be reached from the City's separate
e-services website. (Note: The service runs independently of this
website. See note at left).
"The public have always complained about not being able to get through when using the call centres, so we are providing another means to check up such information," says Edna Mamonyane, a spokesperson for metro police.
Residents must use their username and a password to gain access to the services on the website. If they do not yet have a username, they can register as an online user, with their ID numbers, explains Leone Pretorius, the web manager of the City's e-services website.
Motorists will then be able to avoid the predicament of finding out that they have outstanding summonses or warrants of arrest against them when they are stopped by the Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department at a roadside checkpoint.
The new service is yet another module of a comprehensive system being designed for the department by 2Big Mobile, a black economic empowerment company based in Bryanston.
Called the Integrated Information Management System or I2MS, it forms part of Operation Token Days, a 500-day crackdown on crime and breaking by-laws throughout the city.
However, motorists are not yet able to see if they have any outstanding fines. They will have to contact the Joburg Connect call centre or visit their nearest People's Centre for this information.
This new service comes hot on the heels of a mobile summons and warrants printing facility, another 2Big Mobile product recently acquired by the department, that metro police can use at the roadside.
I2MS includes an Offender Notification Call Centre that is responsible for contacting motorists who have outstanding fines, summonses and warrants.
"This will definitely help us reduce the number of stagnant cases on our system," Mamonyane adds.
Motorists who use the website and find that they have outstanding summonses or warrants, should go to their nearest metro police office and pay their fines.
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