The Inspector Basic of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, has ordered the enforcement of the digitalized Central Motor Registry starting from July 29, 2024.
This, consistent with the police boss, is to modernise and digitize the motor car registration gadget, bolstering the society’s security and safety framework.
The e-CMR is a complicated, real-time on-line repository of motor car knowledge, designed to assistance police investigations, and operational actions, and battle vehicle-related crimes, together with terrorism, banditry, kidnapping, and armed theft.
The transition to a digitalized gadget, consistent with the police, would streamline the documentation and verification processes for car possession and linked transactions.
In a remark on Saturday, the Pressure Spokesman, Muyiwa Adejobi, stated following the IGP’s directives, the e-CMR gadget will manufacture services and products like exchange of possession, license quantity, engine, and chassis/frame seamless, making sure car genuineness, helping in monitoring and cure of stolen cars, and combating the sale of stolen cars to blameless consumers.
The remark learn, “As a part of the efforts of the IG to strengthen the protection of lives and feature, the Nigeria Police Pressure is about to start the enforcement of the digitalized Central Motor Registry (e-CMR) throughout the after 14 days, particularly at the July 29, 2024, to rejuvenate and digitalize the motor car registration gadget, considerably bolstering our society’s security and safety framework.
“Following the directives of the IGP, services and products comparable to exchange of possession, exchange of license quantity, exchange of engine, and alter of chassis/frame would transform seamless because the e-CMR gadget would assure the validation of car genuineness and possession, bettering the facility to trace and recuperate stolen cars successfully, and combating the acquisition of stolen cars by means of blameless consumers.
“Prior to the enforcement itself, the IGP has ordered full publicity of the e-CMR and its enforcement to all members of the public, intimating them of the requirements, processes, and enforcement procedures. Members of the public are urged to obtain the digitalized CMR certificate online.”
Adejobi stated the enforcement was once vital to accumulation the rustic and let go the incidents of car thefts, urging car house owners to cooperate with the police.
He added, “The Nigeria Police Pressure, life in search of the figuring out and assistance of all well-meaning Nigerians and citizens in this initiative, rest dedicated to leveraging era and strategic approaches to strengthen folk protection and nationwide safety.
“The enforcement of the e-CMR is necessary to ensure a safer and secure environment for vehicle ownership and decimate the trend of vehicle theft by greatly reducing the possibility of selling stolen vehicles in the country. We therefore urge all vehicle owners and users to embrace and key into this initiative promptly for optimum safety and security.”