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Rwanda National Police’s Motor Vehicle Inspection Center (MIC) plans to increase its outreach and road safety awareness this year as means for owners of vehicles to effectively utilize the available facilities to ensure the worthiness of their automobiles and to prevent likely traffic accidents caused by mechanical faults.
According to Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP) Emmanuel Kalinda, the Commanding Officer of the Motor vehicle Inspection Unit, plans are underway to add two more inspection lanes at the Remera MIC, which will further increase the number of vehicles inspected in a day.
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“With the two new lanes that we will be unveiled this year, the Mobile Test Lane and a test lane at Gishari Integrated Polytechnic, the number of daily inspections will become more than double to 800,” CSP Kalinda said.
He went on to add that; “Part of the ongoing activities is the deployment of the mobile test lane van to Rusizi and Nyamasheke districts in the Western Province as means to facilitate area resident acquire services easily, but also conduct awareness on road safety.”
According to CSP Kalinda, the numbers of vehicles that turn out for mechanical inspection has increased tremendously since the first two lanes were established at Remera MIC.
In 2014, MIC registered 58,476 vehicles that showed up for inspection and conducted 75,839 inspections. By September last year, MIC had received 45,840 vehicles and conducted 68,666 inspections.
In 2008 alone, when Remera MIC was established with only two lanes, it inspected 20,472 vehicles but this number increased to 30,909 in 2010.
“The number of received vehicles and those inspected vary because a vehicle can be inspected more than once especially when it is found to be mechanically unstable and owner instructed to first fix some faults before it is brought back within 14 days for final inspection and issuance of certificate and sticker on number plates.”
Commercial vehicles are required to undergo an inspection every after six months while private individual cars have to undergo an inspection after 12 month.
“With the scale up of our services, we intend to double the number of inspections. Besides, we attribute the increase to several mechanisms, including awareness campaigns, increase of Motor vehicle Inspection centers including one based in Gishari and the mobile Motor Vehicle Inspection van, and new lanes at the main center in Remera”.
The MIC's aim is to contribute to the reduction of technical default that otherwise would cause accidents.
Equipped with state of the art equipment, the centers inspect critical areas of motor vehicles which include wheel balance and alignment, suspensions, brakes, axle play, headlights as well as visual inspection that involves the use observing the housing of the car, side and rear-view mirrors.
