Come Sep­tem­ber, there could be more mea­sures in place to ex­am­ine peo­ple ap­ply­ing for the first is­sue of their dri­ver’s per­mit.

This is ac­cord­ing to Trans­port Com­mis­sion­er Clive Clarke who is hop­ing that ve­hi­cles with record­ing de­vices will be ready for the road in the next quar­ter so that dri­ving in­struc­tors will have an im­proved test­ing sys­tem.

This was a promise made by Works and Trans­port Min­is­ter Ro­han Sinanan two years ago.

At the time, Sinanan said the Trans­port di­vi­sion would have been fur­nished with their own ve­hi­cles for dri­ving tests equipped with record­ing de­vices to end the il­le­gal prac­tice of peo­ple pay­ing for their li­cences.

Speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia via tele­phone yes­ter­day, Clarke said in the first in­stance, there would be four new ve­hi­cles for Class three (light mo­tor ve­hi­cles) dri­vers.

Clarke said, “It is some­thing I want to bring on board be­fore Sep­tem­ber ... Those ve­hi­cles will be equipped with 360 de­gree cam­eras so we can iden­ti­fy the sur­round­ings, in­clud­ing record­ing the dri­ving test. It will al­so be equipped with GPS so we could go back and re­play ex­act­ly where the ve­hi­cle would have tra­versed dur­ing the time of the dri­ving test.”

He added, “Cur­rent­ly that mat­ter is in the pro­cure­ment stage right now and it is re­ceiv­ing the at­ten­tion of the min­istry and from my un­der­stand­ing from an up­date this morn­ing (Tues­day), the agency that is do­ing the pro­cure­ment for us they are cur­rent­ly do­ing eval­u­a­tions.”

Ef­forts to con­tact Min­is­ter Sinanan yes­ter­day were un­suc­cess­ful.