Be careful with the CazaChimeneas: “police” that will measure the polluting emissions generated by cars in Bogotá

The vehicle is electric and has autonomy to work for eight hours a day. (Secretary of Environment)

The Secretariats of Environment and Mobility, with the objective of carrying out control and monitoring of the sources of contamination in Bogotá, launched on February 3 the patrol called “CazaChimeneas”, a vehicle that will be able to evaluate the emissions generated by motor vehicles that operate with diesel and gasoline, as well as four-stroke motorcycles.

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The patrol will be circulating on the main roads of Bogotá, and will be accompanied by Transit agents to carry out a stricter control of vehicles that generate visible emissions, which are above current regulations and which cause a negative impact on the environment and people’s health.

“It is important to remember that vehicles that do not comply with environmental regulations will be fined. Environment and Mobility are great allies and we have learned from each other to better carry out our exercise of regulation and control. From the Mobility Secretariat we will be accompanying the control operations, we have a large body of civilian agents that has been reinforced in the last year, and that works together with the Traffic Police,” the Mobility Secretary stated on February 3, Deyanira Avila.

This vehicle, owned by the Ministry of the Environment, has autonomy to operate for eight hours a day, is fully electric, and will have the capacity to analyze operational and environmental performance factors of the vehicles.

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“It is a patrol that uses state-of-the-art technologies, 100% electric, the teams operate with solar panels, it has more than eight hours of autonomy and it has both equipment and software that allows us to detect, with an immense level of detail, when the vehicles They are contaminating above the norm”, indicated the Secretary of the Environment, Carolina Urrutia.

This vehicle will have various equipment for the evaluation of exhaust gases from motor vehicles and will be able to measure the opacity of those that operate with diesel, and the concentration of gases (carbon monoxide, total hydrocarbons, oxygen and carbon dioxide) to which They run on gasoline.

The daily tours will be in charge of professionals from the Environment and Mobility secretariats, who will be in charge of executing the respective measurements and there will be accompaniment of the Traffic agents, who will be responsible for imposing the respective subpoenas or immobilizations. The infraction, to keep it in mind, is the C35 and has a value of 522,900 pesos.

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“When we measure a vehicle and it exceeds the limits, a subpoena can of course be imposed on it and, if necessary, also immobilize it. We hope that this initiative can be very successful, we hope to replicate them to be able to be visible throughout the city”, pointed out the secretary of the Environment.

With this tool, the district administration seeks to improve air quality control management, complement roadside operations carried out daily by entities, meet citizen demands to define sites of interest for measurement and identify those vehicles that most pollute the streets.

The concentration of pollutants in the atmosphere is one of the greatest environmental risks that occur in the city, and hence the commitment of the Administration of Mayor Claudia López to promote tools to better manage air quality.

“We are very happy in Bogotá to be able to satisfy one of the things that citizens have been asking us for a long time: the Environment and Mobility secretariats constantly control air emissions on the road, but it was not visible enough. This patrol will be operating in the company of Transit agents to be able to control the mobile sources that circulate through the streets of the city”, said the Secretary of the Environment, Carolina Urrutia.

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