Police Switch On ‘I Catch You’ Cameras: You Speed, You Get Filmed, You Pay!

The Ghana Police Service has activated TraffiTech-GH, its automated traffic enforcement system, after a seven-week grace period in which more than 100,000 caution notices were issued to drivers across the country who were caught on camera driving above the speed limit.

The system, which went live on Sunday, November 1, 2026, uses cameras fitted to police patrol vehicles and mounted on tripods at the roadside to record speeding and other traffic offences.

Motorists are required to keep to 50 kilometres per hour in built-up areas, 90 kilometres per hour on highways and 100 kilometres per hour on motorways.

Not many motorists observed the speed limits on the first day. The rollout is happening against the backdrop of a threatened nationwide withdrawal of services by commercial transport operators, who say they oppose the new enforcement regime.

According to the Motor Traffic and Transport Department (MTTD), footage captured by the cameras will be reviewed and processed before an electronic notice is sent by text message to the registered owner of the offending vehicle.

The message will carry the sender’s identification and GPS coordinates, and will state the vehicle’s registration number, the date, time and place of the alleged violation, and the specific regulation breached. A link to the video evidence will be attached.

Owners will then have two weeks from the date they receive the notice to pay the prescribed fine.

ACP Alexander Kwaku Obeng, Director of Education, Research and Training at the MTTD, told Channel One TV that personnel and equipment were in place before the switch-on and that public sensitisation had been well received.

“Our vehicles are embedded with the cameras,” he said, warning drivers not to assume that an empty stretch of road means no enforcement. “Anybody who thinks the police are not there, we are there.”

ACP Obeng said speeding accounts for roughly 60 per cent of road deaths and serious injuries, describing it as the single biggest contributor to casualties on Ghana’s roads.

The 100,000-plus caution notices issued between September 10 and October 31 were intended to prepare the public for the change. That phase is now closed. Offences will be processed under Regulation 242 of the Automated Road Traffic Offences and Fines, and the MTTD says it is now operating in what it calls deterrent mode.

Notices will name the registered owner, identify the vehicle, set out when and where the offence occurred, cite the relevant regulation and state the penalty payable.

It remains unclear how the threatened strike by commercial transport operators will affect enforcement in the coming days. The MTTD has not indicated whether it will adjust its approach should the operators carry out their threat.