“Saving cameras”: the controversial name with which the beautiful cameras would return to Bucaramanga

The ace fotomultitas will work again in Bucaramangaor, at least, the project has already been approved, according to the city’s director of public transport, Carlos Enrique Bueno.

The mayor Juan Carlos Cardenas He would have given his “yes” to the measure, already structured and presented to the Council, by President Javier Ayala Moreno, under the name of “saving cameras” or “delinquent hunters”, to change the perception of the inhabitants of Bumangues.

“Here we must bring photo fines back to Bucaramanga – he commented – but do not call them photo fines, because the mere name of photo fines causes panic among citizens, let’s call them cameras that save lives , as they do in other places, or let’s install cameras there delinquent hunterbecause we Bumangues have a very bad experience with photo fines, but they have to come back, come back with the name they come back “, according to reference Radio Blue.

Before accident rate in the city, several citizens begin to adopt the measure, whatever name it returns with.

However, in the networks, the project ended up, for the most part, with contradictions, which, like the legal researcher Andrea Gamez They consider fines for photos to be illegal, following a ruling by the Constitutional Court:

“Since 2020 this modality of “fines” has been declared unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court considering that it violates the right to the presumption of innocence, this makes logical sense when we understand that cars by themselves do not generate offenses, so we have to ask ourselves: How can a photo of a moving car detect who the person who committed the offense is?” he commented on the Legalnova portal.

Some have pointed out that the measure is simply not effective: “Photo fines are not 100% effective. If they don’t pay, how do you control offenders? The problem is more fundamental than formal and concerns civic culture, driver education and the feeling of belonging and identity with the city”.

While others pointed out that the project would go Against law: “The fines for photos in Colombia are not legal, since the Ministry of Transport has not yet been able to legalize them because of the monkeys it has, and you intend to impose them in Bucaramanga. Enough of telling so many of lies”, “What needs to be done is to manage the traffic and that the Traffic Department of Bucaramanga is present at peak times, for which it was created, to manage and improve mobility”.

Despite this, since the Council, its president, Javier Ayala, has insisted that camera fines must return, not as an attempt by some to launch a new witch hunt – in itself profitable – but as a means of dealing with those who commit offences. , who have relaxed thanks to the lack of control measures, but who are not all bumangues.

“The photo fines must go to Bucaramanga. I know I will suddenly be interrogated for asking this, but we need to bring the cameras back, we need to start tracking down these delinquents who have taken over our city and are doing nothing about it.

The initiative, for its part, has been well received by the district authorities and there are several voices that have joined the new era of rescue or anti-delinquent cameras, such as the councilor, Jaime Andres Beltran, who, through his networks, commented that “2023 is the year when the debate on photo fines in Bucaramanga must take place. But not so that they become a business, but so that once and for all so many irresponsible people who see traffic lights and traffic signs as decorations are controlled”.