‘Mobile monitoring system’ detects 1,536 violations

TDT | Manama

Bahrain’s “Mobile monitoring system” launched earlier this year to track municipal violations has boosted Kingdom’s effort in this direction by 183 per cent. The system during the first half of this year recorded 1,536 violations, which is an increase of 183 per cent from a year ago, said a top municipalities affairs official.

Sheikh Mohammed bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, the Undersecretary for Municipalities Affairs of the Ministry of Works, Municipalities Affairs and Urban, said the Monitoring and Inspection Department and the Cleaning Services Section recorded the violations following the launch of the system, now in force in all municipalities of the Kingdom.

Majority of the violations were related to the cleanliness of public squares, waste management, washing of vehicles in public spaces, parking or leaving vehicles on sidewalks, squares and other public places as well as construction per Building Regulation Law No. 13 of 1973 and the Law of Public Cleaning No. 10 of 2019.

The system, Sheikh Muhammad said, provides a comprehensive database of the offences through a single electronic portal helping inspectors check the status of the existing violations and determine the extent of the new ones and complete procedures quickly.

The system is useful in issuing construction and reclamation certificates, monitor as well as to detect and rectify violations related to advertisements and commercial registrations among others. “Since its inauguration, the Ministry has conducted training workshops for all employees and created a specialised work team to evaluate and solve any technical problems that may arise.”

The ‘Mobile Monitoring System’ was inaugurated by Shaikh Khalid bin Abdulla Al Khalifa, the Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of the Ministerial Committee for Development and Infrastructure Projects on January 19, 2020.