new delhi in an attempt to augment its enforcement capability the delhi traffic police have acquired a new traffic interceptor and eight new handheld radar guns these new assets have already been activated for use according to joint commissioner of police traffic qamar ahmed the new interceptor and radar guns are technologically superior compared to the ones the traffic police already owned they had acquired two interceptors last year and was equipped with radar guns in all traffic circles the equipment in the new interceptor can store up to 1500 violation records record the data on a cd print pictures of the violating vehicles on the spot and the system is such that it can take both the front and rear view pictures of the violating vehicles said ahmed the interceptor is an ac toyota qualis fitted with equipment for laserbased video monitoring as well as standard video monitoring it has a special camera that can be mounted on the rooftop onboard computer printer palmtops breath analysers and other accessories this apart the eight new automatic speed radar guns too have the option of picture display and can store data for future reference the idea is to make prosecution more transparent now we can give the offenders an onthespot print of a picture of their vehicle with the speed date and time printed on it said ahmed traffic police officers say that onthespot printing facility will help them convince offenders of the fact that a violation has been committed usually people dont accept that they were overspeeding or driving in the wrong lane this causes a problem for our staff on duty who land up spending more time dealing with frayed tempers than simply doing their job said an officer according to figures available with the traffic police in 2003 29922 vehicles were prosecuted by the interceptors the figure this year stands at 8873 similarly 242921 vehicles were prosecuted using radar guns in 2003 in 2004 the figure stands at 73450