RTD sets up own intelligence unit to beef up enforcement
PUTRAJAYA: The Road Transport Department (RTD) has set up an intelligence unit to ensure that enforcement is being carried out with pinpoint accuracy on target groups.
RTD director-general Datuk Shaharuddin Khalid said the unit, which was under the agency’s enforcement division, would gather and process information prior to strategising and taking action.
“This unit is set up to, among others, resolve enforcement issues related to drivers’ licensing, speeding and driving in emergency lanes, more holistically.
“Intelligence reports will be relayed to the RTD director-general through the enforcement division director, before the implementation of a special operation (for example),” he said here yesterday in conjunction with his 100th day as RTD director-general.
He also launched Notes on RTD Governance Towards TN50, which is a set of documents on the rebranding of RTD as part of its mission to achieve the 2050 National Transformation agenda (TN50), which included the establishment of the intelligence unit.
He said efforts to improve RTD’s services included the setting up of an international relations unit, whose main task was to strengthen the agency’s relationship with its regional counterparts.
He said, for instance, RTD’s cooperation with its counterparts in Singapore, Thailand, Brunei and Indonesia could extend to matters of proactive enforcement and beyond to issues related to vehicle entry permit system.
He said RTD was committed to implementing a transformation which would promote itself as an educative agency, instead of a punitive arm commonly perceived as a “stop-and-fine agency”.
He said RTD would introduce more online services, including a Driver Education Curriculum ebook from March to address the shortage of learner driver guidebooks. Bernama