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Ali Hossain Fakir' present. The 10 May feature states it directly: 'Inspector General of Police Md Ali Hossain Fakir inaugurated the \"AI-Based Road Transport Act Violation Detection System\" app at DMP headquarters on 29 April.'", "caveat": null, "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-700c62c82f542d19", "field": "snippet", "text": "cameras at junction signals read number plates, the software checks them against the national BRTA vehicle register, and a case is filed against the registered owner without an officer present", "statementKind": "descriptive", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-c5abbdb35f6358c0", "src-8eb01c17ad1cb08a", "src-c4b05ec0932864d3" ], "supportNote": "TBS, 24 June 2026: 'the camera captures the number plate and generates a digital case without any manual intervention', and the notice goes 'directly to the registered owner'. TBS, 10 May 2026: the system 'can also identify ... expired vehicle documents using the BRTA database'. Global Voices: the software 'cross-references it with the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) database to identify the vehicle owner', and 'regardless of who is driving the car when a mistake is made, the case will be filed against the vehicle's owner'.", "caveat": "The cameras sit on signal installations that a joint Dhaka City Corporation and DMP programme put up; the entry does not claim DMP built the signals.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-f91098cf20f2e2af", "field": "snippet", "text": "Notices go out by SMS and by registered post", "statementKind": "descriptive", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-135fe64b6899ddb2", "src-8eb01c17ad1cb08a" ], "supportNote": "TBS, 30 June 2026, quoting the DMP commissioner: 'vehicle owners identified through the AI cameras receive prosecution notices not only via SMS but also by post to the registered address of the vehicle owner.' TBS, 10 May 2026: 'The notices will be sent by registered post and SMS.'", "caveat": null, "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-f3a38a9dddd28c7b", "field": "snippet", "text": "DMP publishes the day's prosecution statistics on its own website", "statementKind": "descriptive", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-5722a805d12de851", "src-135fe64b6899ddb2" ], "supportNote": "The DMP page 'Daily Report on case lodged under MVO' carries dated reports headed 'Statistics of prosecutions filed under the Motor Vehicles Act' (Bengali). The DMP commissioner separately said on 30 June 2026 that 'The information is also published on the DMP Traffic Division's website.'", "caveat": null, "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-cfaef336bdc424cb", "field": "impact", "text": "The most recent report on that page when it was read on 27 August 2026 recorded 2,431 prosecutions across the eight traffic divisions, Tk 6,517,425 in fines assessed and Tk 4,845,025 realised", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-5722a805d12de851" ], "supportNote": "The summary table posted under the date 26-08-2026 gives, in its footer line, total prosecutions 2431, total fine assessed 6517425 and total fine realised 4845025, over the division rows Ramna, Lalbagh, Motijheel, Wari, Tejgaon, Mirpur, Uttara and Gulshan.", "caveat": "The figures are published only as images of a table, and the same image is posted under more than one date, so the totals belong to the report as published rather than provably to the activity of 26 August alone.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-4fbb998f89c1c82b", "field": "impact", "text": "in one division the realised total exceeded the assessed one, so the pair is a daily cash figure rather than a per-case recovery rate", "statementKind": "descriptive", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-5722a805d12de851" ], "supportNote": "In the same table the Traffic Mirpur row shows 859500 assessed against 996000 realised. Money taken on a day can therefore include fines charged earlier, which is what makes the pair a cash-flow figure rather than a recovery rate for that day's cases.", "caveat": "Read from the published image; the reasoning about what the pair measures is the atlas's, drawn from the figures themselves, not a statement by DMP.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-4bd3cdf5b3b5ac96", "field": "impact", "text": "on 30 June 2026 the DMP commissioner said AI cameras were operating at 19 intersections and had produced around 1,500 cases since May", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-135fe64b6899ddb2" ], "supportNote": "Verbatim: 'Artificial intelligence (AI)-powered traffic cameras are now operational at 19 major intersections across the capital, with around 1,500 traffic cases filed since the technology was introduced, Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Mosleh Uddin Ahmed said today (30 June).'", "caveat": "An operator statement; DMP's daily statistical report does not separate camera-generated cases from those filed by officers.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-ee148d8965b89f0d", "field": "lesson", "text": "publishes it every day — but as a picture of a table, and the pictures are not always distinct, so the series cannot be read as data without checking it", "statementKind": "descriptive", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-5722a805d12de851" ], "supportNote": "Every report on the page is a JPEG or PNG of a table, not a machine-readable file. Downloading the summary image behind each of the twelve most recent report dates on 27 August 2026 returned only nine distinct files: the images under 25 and 26 August 2026 were byte-identical to each other, and a single image appeared under 20, 21 and 22 August.", "caveat": "Checked over the twelve most recent dates only; the entry does not claim a rate of duplication across the whole 2022-2026 archive.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-32932608b4f72ac2", "field": "lesson", "text": "traffic police say cases cannot be filed against Dhaka's unregistered battery rickshaws and plateless vehicles", "statementKind": "descriptive", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-c5abbdb35f6358c0", "src-c4b05ec0932864d3" ], "supportNote": "TBS, 24 June 2026: 'Traffic police officials say that even when violations by battery-run rickshaws and easy bikes are captured on camera, cases cannot be filed because these vehicles are not registered and therefore do not appear in any database.' Global Voices reports the same gap and that no policy for such vehicles has been stated.", "caveat": null, "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-2ce58f9bbfdd677f", "field": "lesson", "text": "because a camera that identifies an owner by matching a plate to the BRTA register has nothing to match", "statementKind": "descriptive", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-c4b05ec0932864d3", "src-8eb01c17ad1cb08a" ], "supportNote": "Global Voices states the mechanism and the consequence in one place: 'The AI camera system's entire mechanism depends on scanning plates and matching them to the BRTA database. A vehicle with no plate is, for all practical purposes, invisible to it.' TBS, 10 May 2026, records BUET's Md Hadiuzzaman making the register the condition: 'The BRTA database must be updated and accurate. 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Lists 'Traffic POS Devices' among the hardware the unit maintains and names, under Achievements, the 'e-traffic prosecution system-Store Vehicle Prosecution and fine collection information'. 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Each report is posted as images of tables: a summary by traffic division and vehicle type carrying both the fine assessed (dharjokrito) and the fine realised (adaikrito), plus two breakdowns by violation type. Read on 27 August 2026, the page carried 1,108 distinct report dates from 2 January 2022 to 26 August 2026 (counted by parsing the page's own links). 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DMP inaugurated nine systems on 29 April 2026 including the AI-Based Road Transport Act Violation Detection System, with IGP Md Ali Hossain Fakir and acting commissioner Md Sarwar present; describes cameras at signal points feeding cases filed 'through an e-traffic prosecution system'.", "exact": false }, "preservation": { "archiveUrl": null, "archivedAt": null, "contentHash": null, "status": "not-captured" } }, { "id": "src-28867af71382d5ee", "title": "The Business Standard — Traffic law violations to trigger automatic cases, DMP warns drivers (press)", "url": "https://www.tbsnews.net/bangladesh/dmp-using-cctv-footage-enforce-traffic-rules-1428426", "publisher": { "name": null, "domain": "tbsnews.net", "classification": "not-classified" }, "sourceType": "web-page", "language": "und", "role": "background", "claimRefs": [], "temporal": { "publishedAt": "2026-05-03", "updatedAt": null, "sourceCheckedAt": null, "recordLastVerifiedAt": "2026-08-26", "dossierCreatedAt": "2026-08-26", "retrievedAt": null, "status": "publication-and-record-dates-recorded" }, "locator": { "type": "descriptive-source-note", "value": "The DMP public notice of 3 May 2026 signed by acting commissioner Md Sarwar: evidence collected from CCTV and video, e-traffic prosecution software sending notices to registered addresses, fines paid at DMP headquarters or the traffic division through bank or mobile banking under the Road Transport Act 2018, summonses or arrest warrants for non-response, and a warning about fraudulent payment demands.", "exact": false }, "preservation": { "archiveUrl": null, "archivedAt": null, "contentHash": null, "status": "not-captured" } }, { "id": "src-8eb01c17ad1cb08a", "title": "The Business Standard — Jumped red light? No helmet? 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Carries the five detected violation types, the statement by traffic police that cases cannot be filed against unregistered battery rickshaws and easy bikes because they appear in no database, a BRTA official's confirmation that the automatic twelve-point licence deduction software is still under development, and BUET Accident Research Institute director Hasib Mohammed Ahsan on sustained enforcement. 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