Acting Director of General Directorate of Traffic, Muhammad Abdullah Al Shahwani; Director of Traffic Awareness Department, Col Dr Muhammad Radi Al Hajri and Assistant Director of Licensing Affairs, Col Rashid Salih Al Qamra during the press conference.
Doha: From December 18, the General Directorate of Traffic is launching “Traffic Violations Settlement Initiative” to ease paying for accumulated traffic violations.
As per regulations in the initiatives, people can avail 50 percent discount while paying the accumulated traffic violations in the next three months. The payment can be done through Metrash2.
Acting Director of the General Directorate of Traffic, Brigadier Muhammad Abdullah Al Shahwani, urged people to benefit from this initiative because from the beginning of next year (2022), there will be stricter legal procedures regarding traffic violations. In the new procedures, which will come into place sometime next year, those who failed to pay the violations will be referred to follow-up cases and settlement section to amend the situation within two months, then the violations will be referred to the Public Prosecution.
Al Shahwani said in press conference organised yesterday at the Department Headquarters that Traffic Violations Settlement Initiative came to ease the procedures and to celebrate the Qatar National Day. He also stressed on those whom cars are seized at the Traffic Department in Industrial Area because of violations to take advantage of this initiative so that their vehicle will not be sold.
The event was attended by Col Dr Muhammad Radi Al Hajri, Director of Traffic Awareness Department, and Col. Rashid Salih Al Qamra, Asst. Director of Licensing Affairs.
For his part, Al Hajri said that this initiative aims to correct the situation of violators through a new mechanism based on the non-accumulation of traffic violations in the coming years, which gives it the status of a judicial officer and activates the national address to announce these violations.
He stressed that all these procedures are carried out in coordination with the relevant authorities, within the Ministry of the Interior and the external authorities concerned with the judiciary.
Al Hajri emphasised that “As of next year 2022, there will be a new mechanism for controlling and collecting traffic violations. The (goodwill) initiative launched by the Ministry will benefit a large segment of road users, especially those who have committed traffic violations and have accumulated large sums of money.”
Colonel Jaber Mohamed Rashid Odaiba, Assistant Director of the Media and Traffic Awareness Department at the General Directorate of Traffic, called on everyone to take advantage of this initiative launched by the Ministry of Interior and to settle the violations accumulated during the past years in this three-month period.
Speaking to reporters about the traffic movement during the ongoing FIFA Arab cup, Acting Director of the General Directorate of Traffic Brigadier Al Shahwani said that the traffic movement during the Arab Cup was normal and that the temporary closure of the Doha Corniche Street did not significantly affect the traffic movement.
He added that the streets are carefully monitored by traffic patrols deployed in the streets and through surveillance cameras at all the intersections.
