Police begin rolling out TraffiTech-GH speed camera warning signs after Mahama directive

The Ghana Police Service and road safety agencies have commenced processes for the installation of large advance warning signboards across key road corridors to alert motorists to the presence of automated TraffiTech-GH speed cameras. The move follows a direct call by President John Dramani Mahama for administrative transparency in the deployment of the automated traffic enforcement system, insisting that drivers must be given clear prior notice of camera locations.

Photographs from the exercise show police personnel and technical crews preparing and mounting large blue-and-yellow reflective gantries equipped with heavy lifting machinery. In one of the photos, ACP Alexander Kwaku Obeng, Director of Education, Research and Training at the MTTD, was captured by some of the signs bearing a 50 m speed limit sign. Some of the newly introduced billboards prominently feature a camera icon alongside a red-ringed “80” km/h speed limit sign.

Bold inscriptions on the panels read: “24-hrs speed camera monitoring” and “Speed kills, kill it now”. Fulfilling the transparency mandate The signage rollout directly addresses public concerns raised following the launch of the TraffiTech-GH initiative on November 1, 2026. Several commercial transport operators and private motorists had criticized the initial phase of the system, arguing that enforcing automated fines without visible warning signs amounted to entrapment.

Speaking on the sidelines of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Antigua and Barbuda earlier this month, President Mahama backed the technology as vital to reducing pedestrian fatalities while directing the police and implementing partners to erect visible advance notices. “All I will urge is that the police and those implementing TraffiTech should put signs showing where the cameras are, because that is one of the things you need to do if you are introducing this kind of innovation,” President Mahama stated.

“You need to put signposts warning motorists that there is a speed camera ahead. I think that transparency is important.” How the TraffiTech-GH system operates Operated under the Motor Traffic and Transport Department (MTTD) of the Ghana Police Service, TraffiTech-GH uses fixed, mobile, and radar camera sensors to capture speeding violations in real time.

Once a vehicle exceeds the posted speed limit, the system automatically generates an Electronic Notice of Violation (ENV) and dispatches an SMS alert containing details of the infraction and statutory fine to the registered owner’s mobile phone. Road safety officials have indicated that the ongoing installation of warning signs will be extended across major highways and urban arteries nationwide as authorities prepare to activate additional enforcement modules covering red-light jumping and illegal parking.