Police have started mounting large advance warning signs to alert drivers to TraffiTech-GH speed cameras, days after President Mahama ordered transparency about camera locations.
Photographs from the exercise show police personnel and technical crews mounting large blue-and-yellow reflective gantries with heavy lifting machinery. Some panels carry a camera icon beside a red-ringed 80 km/h limit, with the inscriptions “24-hrs speed camera monitoring” and “Speed kills, kill it now”.
ACP Alexander Kwaku Obeng, the MTTD’s Director of Education, Research and Training, was pictured beside one of the new signs, marked 50 m.
The rollout answers President Mahama’s directive
Obeng had promised the signs in a weekend radio interview, saying: “Very soon in the course of this week, you will see notices of camera and speed signs indicating where we are patrolling with our in-vehicle cameras.”
He said the department is working with urban roads and highways authorities to install them.
Earlier, Obeng named the Bortianor stretch, Boundary Road, the Burma Camp area and parts of the Accra-Kasoa and Accra-Nsawam roads as monitored routes with signs. The NRSA has said cameras will only be used on roads with posted speed limits.
The new signs do not change the legal position in the police FAQs: there is no legal obligation to announce enforcement equipment, and a missing sign does not invalidate an offence.
Default limits of 30 km/h near schools, markets and places of worship, 50 km/h in built-up areas, 90 km/h on highways and 100 km/h on motorways apply whether or not a sign is posted, and owners get 14 days to pay or contest a ticket.
Genuine fine SMS come only from the sender ID GPS-MTTD, never from ordinary mobile numbers and never with clickable links.
Drivers should verify the photo evidence on their ticket and pay at the NIB portal or with *710*0#, and can check unpaid fines with *220# before a DVLA visit.
Speeding fines start at GH¢240 for 5 to 20 km/h over the limit and rise to GH¢480, with a daily surcharge after 14 days. Only speeding is generating fines for now; red-light jumping and other camera modules follow later.
