Bhubaneswar, April 7: Those caught on camera for traffic violations will shortly get notices from police.

The police have decided to use money from the contingency fund to meet the postal expenses that will be incurred on sending notices to 13,000 violators in the first phase.

As notices could not be served due to the lack of funds to despatch them by post, the police had approached the state government for a special annual fund of Rs 5 lakh to serve notices on the violators.

However, the cops are not willing to wait for the special fund to get the scheme rolling so they have dug into their own pockets.

So far, around 13,000 cases of violation have been detected by the closed-circuit television cameras (CCTV) installed at various traffic intersections across the city.

"The postal charge for serving each notice to violators is Rs 5, and more than 200 violators are caught every day. So, we have written to the state government for a special annual fund of Rs 5 lakh to serve the notices. But the expenses for serving 13,000 notices in the first phase would be met from the contingency fund," said a senior police official.

To bypass fund crunch, the police had initially decided to use the services of the concerned police stations in the twin cities to serve notices on the violators. But the plan did not work. "The idea was dropped as it would be difficult for policemen to find the exact whereabouts of the violators," said a police official.

Therefore, they came up with the plan to use money from their own fund to serve notices.

The violators need to pay a penalty of Rs 500 within seven days of being served with the notice.

Asked how long will they take to get the process rolling, assistant commissioner of police (traffic) Jatindra Kumar Panda said: "We will get the full list of vehicles caught on the CCTVs for flouting traffic norms and start serving them notices in a day or two."

While more than 7,000 violators were caught at AG Square, the remaining were captured by the CCTVs installed at 27 other intersections across the city.

The police had introduced the CCTV-based surveillance system in the city on February 5.

The police have also decided to intensify the drive against fancy number plates in the city.