Rwanda National Police

Ten Police officers attached to the department of Traffic and Road Safety, yesterday started a 5-day training on use of 'Advanced Speed Laiser,'   a newly acquired hi-tech gadget used to measure the speed of vehicles.

This training of trainers' will also benefit other police officers and it's one of the measures to limit the speed of vehicles and to prevent accidents resulting out of over speeding in particular.

The Advanced Speed Laiser  machine has the capacity to measure speed, video recording, and identify vehicles registration number unlike the previous one which could only indicate the speed.

This machine will therefore facilitate in conflict resolution between the police and violators of traffic regulations.

The trucam speed laiser machine therefore records information which can be admissible in courts of law as evidence.

AIP Stanislas  Nkurundungi, one of the participants said this machine will facilitate in regulating vehicle speed especially on highways and enforce road security.

"The machines we were using previously measured speed only hence putting an officer in a defensive and awkward position when a driver denied committing an offence, and it was really hard to prove it with no recording indicating the vehicle plate number," AIP Nkurundungi said