ETLE Has Been Implemented In 34 Regional Police And 119 Resort Police

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JAKARTA - The National Police continues to strengthen the electronic traffic law enforcement (ETLE) system or electronic ticketing in order to avoid illegal levies (pungli) from traffic members.

"The implementation of ETLE is a priority program for the National Police Chief to minimize deviations from members in the field in the law enforcement process in the form of fines," said Head of Public Relations Division of the National Police Inspector General Dedi Prasetyo, in his statement in Jakarta, Friday 17 February.

Dedi explained that currently the ETLE system has been implemented in 34 Polda and 119 Polres. Of these, there were 295 static ETLE cameras, 794 handheld ETLE cameras, 63 mobile ETLE on board, and seven portable ELE.

Of the 34 who have implemented ETLE, only four regional police have held ETLE cameras at the police station level, namely Metro Jaya Police, Polda Central Java, Polda East Java, and Polda South Sumatra.

"There are four Polda with ETLE cameras that are held up to the Polres level," he said.

The application of the ETLE system reduces direct contact between officers and offenders. Violation enforcement is carried out by ETLE cameras that take pictures of infringement vehicles.

Then the back office officer verifies and sends a letter confirming the violation to the offender via the Indonesian post.

Violators can confirm through the web service or come to the post. After that, the violator is given a ticket payment code via SMS or email to be paid through the bank.

"All existing mechanisms reduce direct interaction between officers and offenders. This is intended to reduce bribery or other forms of violations," he said.

The former Central Kalimantan Police Chief admitted that in implementing ETLE there are still many obstacles and obstacles, such as the limited budget for sending confirmation letters, the ETLE blocking mechanism which is still manual, the National Police Traffic Corps ETLE development budget which has not been optimal to the limited ETLE human resources.

"Even so, the National Police will try their best to implement digital transformation in the traffic sector to serve the community," he said.

In addition, said Dedi, the implementation of the ETLE system aims to increase public awareness of driving and traffic rules.

Likewise, officers who are caught committing extortion will be subject to strict action in the form of disciplinary sanctions, code of ethics, and criminal sanctions.

Some of the efforts made by the National Police so that the implementation of ETLE runs optimally, namely strengthening the ETLE back office in 34 Polda, carrying out maintenance and maintenance of the ETLE system in 34 Polda, procuring a budget for sending confirmation letters to 34 Polda, training ETLE officers from 34 Polda, and procuring additional equipment ETLE for 34 regional police.

Then automate the ETLE blocking mechanism that is connected to the ERI application and certification of traffic violation enforcement officers on an ongoing basis for 34 Polda.

"All these improvements have been made so that people can drive in an orderly manner on the streets and reduce the risk of accidents," he said.

In implementing the enforcement, Dedi explained, until December 2022 there were 42,852,990 vehicles that had been "captured" by ETLE cameras. Of these figures, 1,716,453 data have been validated by the back office staff and have been forwarded in the form of sending confirmation letters to vehicle owners.

Then there are 636,239 data that have been confirmed to have committed a violation. The confirmation process is constrained by the vehicle owner's address being invalid and there is no "tracking" for sending the confirmation letter.

Meanwhile, from the data, 268,216 have been paid after the vehicle owner was confirmed and given a ticket form and a payment code.