From 2027, police vehicles will record traffic offences outside the Safe City network
Minister Panche Toshkovski says MIA cars — stationary and moving — will register violations and feed them into the digital offences system.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) will begin using its patrol vehicles as mobile recording devices for traffic offences from 2027, Minister Panche Toshkovski announced on 4 November 2026. The measure is intended to catch violations in areas that are not yet covered by the Safe City camera network.
According to Toshkovski, a large number of MIA vehicles will be equipped to register offences both when parked and while on the move. He said drivers have learned where Safe City cameras are located and behave accordingly, but where cameras are absent "we again have a different type of driving."
"With MIA vehicles we will be able to detect, above all, driving a motor vehicle at inappropriate speed. I believe that such type of control is necessary so we can calm traffic also where we have not installed cameras. Those who drive vehicles irresponsibly have slowly learned where the cameras are and that's good. Well now, they will not be able to guess where police vehicles will be. They will be able to record an offence and it will be directly entered into the digital electronic system for delivery, enforcement, processing of all offences," Toshkovski said after the launch of the National Strategy for Road Safety 2026–2030.
Rollout and timetable
Toshkovski said the Safe City system is expected to be completed in the Strumica regional police unit and the towns it covers by the end of November 2026, after which it will be implemented in the Shtip regional unit. He added that the aim is for the system to be applied across the entire country by the end of 2026 or the beginning of 2027.
Officials present at the event described the move as a key element of the new national road-safety strategy, which sets targets and measures for reducing traffic casualties and improving enforcement through the end of the decade.
The ministry did not release a detailed technical specification for the in-vehicle recording equipment at the launch; further operational details, enforcement rules and timelines are expected as the deployment proceeds.
Photo: press material from the event
