The Ministry of Public Security has just issued Circular No. 83/2024 on the construction, management, operation, exploitation and use of the monitoring system to ensure security, order and safety of road traffic. In which, there is a provision on decentralization of management and operation of the traffic monitoring system.

Specifically, Article 6 of the Circular stipulates that the Traffic Police Department manages and operates the traffic monitoring system on expressways, except for expressways assigned by the Minister of Public Security and delegated to the Public Security of provinces and centrally run cities to organize patrols, control, and handle violations.

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The Traffic Police Department will manage and operate the monitoring system on highways. Photo: Dinh Hieu

The police of provinces and centrally run cities manage and operate the traffic monitoring system on roads within the administrative boundaries of the provinces and centrally run cities and on assigned and decentralized expressways to organize patrols, control and handle violations.

The unit managing and operating the traffic monitoring system regularly monitors, checks and evaluates the operation of traffic monitoring equipment, equipment supporting the traffic monitoring system, equipment located at the traffic monitoring center, transmission lines and software of the traffic monitoring system to ensure stable operation of the system; regularly checks the status and data storage capacity of the traffic monitoring system; evaluates the image recording of the traffic monitoring equipment.

Information and data in the traffic monitoring system are managed, classified and shared according to the regulations of the Minister of Public Security on management, connection and sharing of surveillance camera data in the People's Public Security.

The unit managing and operating the traffic monitoring system shall develop regulations on management, operation, exploitation and use of the traffic monitoring system; develop a plan to handle and restore the system and data when incidents occur. Before promulgating regulations on management, operation, exploitation and use of the traffic monitoring system, the provincial and municipal police must submit a written request for the opinion of the Traffic Police Department.