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FRSC Using E-ticketing Device, Not PoS Machines At Patrol Points – Spokesman
Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) denies using Point of Sale (PoS) machines to receive payment of fines at patrol points.
Instead, FRSC said its patrol operatives uses Electronic Booking Device (E-Tablet) for issuing traffic offence tickets.
It added that the 3 in one android device has been wrongly termed as a PoS machine by a section of the motoring public.
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has debunked the claim by a section of the motoring public that it uses Point of Sale (PoS) machines to receive payment for fines on traffic offenses at patrol points.
FRSC Corps Public Education Officer, Bisi Kazeem, who made this known in a statement on Wednesday, said the Corps doesn’t use or permit the use of POS machines to receive payment for fines of traffic offences on patrol points.
Instead, FRSC said its patrol operatives uses Electronic Booking Device (E-Tablet) for issuing traffic offence tickets, adding that the device has been wrongly termed as a PoS machine by a section of the motoring public.
“Owing to the misrepresentation by a section of the motoring public on the use of the Federal Road Safety Corps’ Electronic Booking Device (E-Tablet), one of the Corps’ technological breakthroughs specifically designed for issuing traffic offence tickets by patrol operatives as Point of Sale Machine (POS).
FRSC further revealed some of the advantages of the Electronic Booking Device (E-Tablet) over the booking sheet, which is a manual way of recording traffic offenders information.
“This development is strategic to the introduction of technology into its operations to fade out the use of booking sheet which is a manual way of recording traffic offenders information and replace it with a digital booking device.
“In addition to the above and for better clarification on this technology, the Corps wishes to let the public know that the E-Tablet is a 3 in one android device that was brought into the operational front in compliance with global best practices on electronic ticketing.
“The introduction of the device targets at improving robust data collection and speeding up on-the-spot synchronisation of traffic offenders information into the national database.
“The device is a one stop shop for verification of the national driver’s license and the vehicle number plate as well as other FRSC products and services.
“The Acting Corps Marshal, Dauda Ali Biu, is by this medium reiterating that the motoring public should note that the Corps does not use POS machines but a digitalized E-ticketing device which at the moment enhances ease of doing business.”
