The Border Management Authority ( BMA) says its new Vehicle Targeting System has already intercepted eighteen vehicles at the Beitbridge border post in Limpopo.
The system was launched on the 18th of October.
Law enforcement officers say the technology-based system is assisting them to identify stolen vehicles that criminals want to smuggle across the border.
Some of the vehicles that get flagged on the new surveillance system are still under vehicle bank financing, and the banks have not authorized cross border travel.
Senior border guard, Solomon Matloa says their system is able to identify cars when they enter the border’s precinct.
“The technology is very advanced in such a way that it is an integrated technology with other security or law enforcement stakeholders including financial institutions in such a way that once the vehicle enters the border then it then informs us that there’s a vehicle ,which is suspected to be stolen or there’s a vehicle which has been cloned or the vehicle doesn’t proper documents in order to proceed to cross the border.” –Reporting by Avhapfani Munyai
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