Sharjah: Thirty new smart radar units have been installed and are now up and running across the emirate’s roads, said Sharjah Police on Tuesday.

The new tube-shaped radars will target primarily speeding motorists and aggressive tailgaters but can also track a long list of driving transgressions, said police.

Sharjah Police’s new radar can catch different traffic violations at the same time, including vehicles going slower than the minimum speed, vehicles not leaving enough distance between other vehicles, heavy vehicles not abiding by their designated lanes, heavy vehicles that are on the road outside their designated timings and vehicles driving on the hard shoulder.

The new radars are so intelligent that they are programmed to watch traffic from both sides of the road and catch more than one violation at the same time in either direction.

The new radar is fitted with 3G technology that instantly sends data such as licence plate numbers directly to the traffic department.

Brigadier Saif Al Ziri Al Shamsi, Commander-in-Chief of Sharjah Police, said this is a part of Sharjah Police’ Internal Accelerators programme with an aim towards decreasing traffic accidents to realise the UAE’s National Agenda 2021 vision of making the country one of the world’s safest and most secure countries.

To achieve these goals, the new radar units have been installed on five key roads — Maliha, Shaikh Mohammad Bin Zayed, Emirates, Al Ittihad and Sharjah-Al Dhaid roads, all of which, witnessed multiple traffic accidents.

There were five deaths on these five roads in the first quarter of this year, said police.

Brig Al Shamsi said they always look for the newest technology to improve the condition of the roads and reduce accidents.

Benefits at a glance

Watches multiple vehicles on multiple lanes simultaneously

Precise identification of violations even if photographic evidence shows multiple vehicles

Monitoring of inbound and outbound traffic

Works in heavy traffic and difficult measurement settings

Variable speed enforcement for different lanes and vehicles classes

Additional monitoring of lanes according to vehicle class

Live transmission of violation recording

Source: Sharjah Police