And for those wondering, the Ministry of Transport is looking for new traffic wardens. The Minister explained that Cabinet has approved their budget increase and they are looking to increase to as many as 200 staff. The training strategy will also change with the ministry looking to a training style similar to the police:
Dr. Louis Zabaneh, Minister of Transport
"We got support from cabinet to increase our enforcement staff from 42 to 200, and we expect that that will be going on gradually, in the new fiscal year, as those funds come on stream, a part of how we're going to do it now would be more like the police are to BDF right where you have to apply, and then you also have to go through training. All the present wardens across the country are doing that. They are getting trained. Something that never happened before. This is going to be part and parcel of how persons now become wardens to go there to enforce your traffic laws."
"The NDC busses will have another layer of monitoring, because what we are installing in each of the busses, we would have cameras that show in the front of the bus and inside the bus we're able to track the speed of each bus. We're able to look at the performance of the driver of those busses in terms of timeliness, stopping unnecessarily on the road, etc.. So we have a control room that's being established right now in Belmopan, where we will be able to see all of the buses along the road, wherever they are. And we can also get information that helps us with the monitoring of the, see when tires are needed to be replaced, how fuel is being used, etc."
