The city's traffic police plan to introduce "e-ticketing", an electronic database of traffic offenders, and link it with the Land Transport Department to make sure violators pay their fines.
Under the e-ticket project, police will use a mobile device to issue tickets that are automatically logged into a police database, the Police Information System (Polis). But police say they can do more if the new system is synched with the Land Transport Department.
Traffic offenders will be made to pay when they renew their annual vehicle registration and pay vehicle taxes at the department, said Pol Maj Gen Adul Narongsak, deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Bureau (MPB) overseeing traffic.
"This year we expect to see full payment from motorists who are booked for traffic violations," he said.
Right now, only about 30% of traffic offenders pay their fines, he said. Traffic police leave tickets on vehicles with a deadline to pay, but most people do not. The new system is expected to increase efficiency and transparency in traffic police operations and reduce traffic violations.
Pol Maj Gen Adul said drivers who commit the same traffic offence twice will get demerit points while those with three tickets on the same offence will see their driver's licences suspended.
He said the MPB will discuss tighter cooperation with the department next week.