Minister of Justice Mr. Abdellatif Ouahbi has presented a number of observations in reaction to the report issued by the Higher Council of Accounts (Audit) for 2021, about the “system of monitoring infractions by means of fixed radars”.
Minister Ouahbi has confirmed, during a public session devoted to the discussion of the presentation mad by first President of the Higher Council of Accounts about courts financial works as for 2021, that the Ministry has taken the initiative to create an information system treatment for infractions and offences monitored via fixed radars; a system that works around the clock, all day and the entire week and so allows exchange of data spontaneously and automatically.
The Minister has clarified that the system is updated all the time and uploaded with new data when it’s necessary in full coordination with other partners, highlighting that the idea of integrating various systems in one poses a number of problems due to competencies and specificities of each intervener.
The government official has stated that the rate increase “special to the fund to subside courts” from income of restorative and arbitrary fines fixed at 28% would allow an effective treatment of cases reported to courts, which will be increased by six times with the function of all new radars.
Minister Ouahbi added that the new organizational chart of the Justice Ministry included the creation of a division called “criminality national monitoring center” which is responsible for studying all criminal behaviors including illegal roads traffic and gathering data, reports and researches susceptible to set up effective public policies in the achievement of roads traffic safety.
Concerning revision of legal deadlines to extract restorative and arbitrary fines, the Ministry has put itself at the availability of contributing to legislative amendments of the roads traffic code in an attempt to respond to all pending problems.
Minister Ouahbi has pointed out that the problem of absence of full identity of offenders is actually the real issue facing the system of treatment of infractions via fixed radars, confirming that the Ministry is working in partnership with many interveners, namely the General Directory of National Security (Police), to study the possibility of getting full identity of offenders based on their ID cards; the fact which will have positive impact on reporting and executing judicial rulings.