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Acting national traffic police spokesperson Assistant Inspector Luckmore Chakanza yesterday said the detecting vehicle was now on the road.
“We are now on the road and started operating yesterday (Thursday). And what we are saying now is that all vehicles without the new licence discs would be impounded and taken to the Vehicle Inspection Department,” he said.
Asst Insp Chakanza said the vehicles would only be released when the owners have obtained the new licence disc.
Other traffic offenders would also be arrested.
Police would also be checking vehicle roadworthiness.
Asst Insp Chakanza urged motorists to comply with all traffic regulations.
“We will continue to be on the road to ensure there is sanity countrywide,” he said.
Zinara head of administration and human resources Mr Precious Murove said of the 317 motorists arrested without the new licence discs, 149 were detected on July 6, and 168 others were fined yesterday.
“We have already engaged and we are working on modalities with the Criminal Investigation Department and Vehicle Inspection Department so that we are empowered as law enforcement agents to impound defaulters’ vehicles until they comply and clear their arrears,” he said.
Mr Murove said they had discovered that most motorists were not complying with the new system because they had arrears dating back to 2009.
Others had no proper documentation for their vehicles such as registration books.
Mr Murove said more detecting vehicles would be bought and deployed out of Harare.
The recently acquired Mercedes Benz-Vito is a super vehicle that contains electronic gadgets including a laptop directly connected to Zinara’s national vehicle database and has four high definition digital video recorders that capture everything happening within the vicinity of a mounted road- block.
Zinara recently introduced the new licence disc with high security features to curb counterfeiting.
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