Road Safety: The Gendarmerie launches “Third Generation”

The Secretary of State in the Ministry of Defence in charge of the National Gendarmerie, Jean Baptiste Bokam has launched a new phase of the National Road Safety Campaign.

This more repressive phase provides harsher punishment for recidivist road users. Accordingly, the vehicles of road users who keep repeating the same offences shall simply be impounded.

Launching the campaign in the East Region, the National Gendarmerie boss said within a period of one year (2014) the state treasury got some FCFA 120 million as fines.

In less than a quarter of the year gone, FCFA 20 million has already been collected from recalcitrant road users uniquely along the Yaounde-Douala highway.

These drivers he said keep falling back on reckless driving after passing through checkpoints.

This practice has prompted the National Gendarmerie to introduce sophisticated methods aimed at checking speed and detecting outlawed content in cars even from a distance.

The Minister once more insisted on overloading and other offences.

The fines and punishment include;

Overloading-FCFA 25000

No or illegible number plate- FCFA 3600

Expired car document -the car is impounded

Competent authorities shall be deployed on the main road networks to enforce the laws that are intended to render Cameroon`s road network more safer.