Guyana's Safe Road Intelligence System — AI-Assisted Traffic Camera Enforcement

Since April 2025, the Guyana Police Force's Traffic Department and the National Data Management Authority have operated the Safe Road Intelligence System (SRIS): overhead cameras and radar speed signs on major corridors such as Heroes Highway and the East Coast Demerara road that capture speeding and seatbelt violations and match plates to a central vehicle-owner database, issuing e-tickets by SMS, email, WhatsApp or post without an officer present. In 2026 the system was extended with video-analytics lane-violation detection and a mobile 'AI surveillance' unit that patrols communities flagging vehicles with outstanding tickets.
The Department of Public Information reported over 4,340 e-tickets between April and mid-July 2025; Guyana Chronicle put the total at 42,000 by late November 2025; and INews Guyana reported over 51,000 e-tickets and more than $205 million collected, with 52% of tickets settled, by 2 May 2026. In one overnight test of the mobile unit on the East Coast corridor, President Irfaan Ali said officers found 'more than 250' vehicles with outstanding tickets.
Every published figure originates with the Traffic Chief or the government's own Department of Public Information; independent outlets have republished but not separately audited them, and no multilateral body has verified the results. The Police Force's own year-end statistics are a useful honesty check: total road accidents fell 10% (2,405 to 2,177) from 2024 to 2025, but road fatalities rose 6% (132 to 137) over the same period — the year SRIS launched — so 'safer roads' is an official framing, not an established causal outcome of the system. The 'artificial intelligence' label itself is also a retrofit: 2025 launch materials described the camera network as 'automated', with explicit AI language appearing mainly from 2026 onward alongside the video-analytics and mobile-unit additions.

Read the full analysis: https://inewsguyana.com/over-51000-e-tickets-issued-traffic-chief-says-turning-point-in-road-safety-enforcement/