Police outposts for Mandela-Eccles highway

Apr 18, 2022 News

Overhead shot of one of the locations

Kaieteur News – Investment in the recently commissioned $2.6B four-lane Mandela to Eccles highway is not over as yet. In fact, plans are now being streamlined to adorn the new highway with two new police outposts with the aim of enhancing traffic control and crime detection in the Georgetown and East Bank Police districts.

Commander of Georgetown Police Division, Simon McBean and others identifying locations for the new police outposts

The government’s plans to invest more in the highway were revealed via a press statement sent out by the Guyana Police Force’s (GPF) Corporate Communications Unit (CCU) on Saturday. According to the statement, “Plans are in motion to further enhance the police presence on the recently commissioned Mandela Avenue to Eccles Four Lane Highway… As two police outposts are soon expected to be placed at both ends of the highway.”
One of the outposts will be placed some 400 metres away from the roundabout at Mandela Avenue, Georgetown and a second will be constructed the same distance away from the turn that leads to the highway from Eccles on the East Bank of Demerara.
Commander of the Georgetown Police Division, Simon McBean, and Acting Deputy Police Commissioner of Operations, Ravindradat Budram, visited the Highway on Friday to identify the potential locations to construct the new outposts.
The government has already invested some $2.6B on the highway and President Irfaan Ali boasted during its commissioning ceremony on Thursday last that it is equipped with a security feature that can track errant road users.
He said that the new security feature will be turned on in three week’s time and will be able to track and record vehicle speeds and transfer that data electronically to the Guyana Police Force (GPF) and the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA).
The technology, Ali had said, will also be able to identify number plates and the image of drivers and their front seat passengers – even on dark rainy nights – and transmit that information electronically as well to the relevant authorities.
If motorists are found breaking the traffic rules, such as driving above the speed limit, then the information will be used to prosecute them. (Shervin Belgrave)

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