“The machines would be installed at Fahes stations at Al Khor, Al Sheehaniyah, Al Wukair, Al Mazrouah, Al Shamal, Al Wakrah and Dukhan to serve the residents of those areas,” Brigadier Saqr Salim al-Muraikhi, head of the licensing affairs section at the Traffic Department, told local Arabic daily Arrayah.
Eid Mohamed al-Kubaisi, general director of Fahes, asserted there is a close co-operation between Fahes and the licensing affairs section in this regard to ensure the residents of the targeted areas need not travel to the new workshop in Doha to change the number plates of their vehicles.
He said the first stage would include installing these machines at the existing Fahes station at Al Khor and the upcoming ones at Al Sheehaniyah and Al Wukair, which are set to be inaugurated by the end of this year.
The second stage will include installing these machines at the new stations that are set to be established at Al Mazrouah, Al Shamal and other areas of the country.
“Meetings are going on between the licensing affairs section and the officials at Fahes to provide the necessary technical requirements to install and operate these machines,” Brigadier al-Muraikhi said, while adding that Al Mazrouah station would include 20 tracks for technical inspection, with 10 each for light vehicles and trucks.
The new number plate workshop, opened by the Ministry of Interior in Doha’s Ain Khaled area during the last week of September, is spread over an area of 25,000sq m and built at a cost of QR18mn.
General Directorate of Traffic director general Brigadier Mohamed Saad al-Kharji had said the new workshop with its larger area and advanced equipment will make installation of number plates on cars much easier than it was at the former location at Madinat Khalifa.
The number plate installation will be done within minutes without the need for the owner or driver of the car to get down from the vehicle.
The new workshop building is divided into three parts with the first having two separate sections for light and heavy vehicles with 17 counters and can accommodate 150 people.
The second part is the workshop area equipped with modern, imported equipment, while the third part of the building is a warehouse for raw materials used in manufacturing the number plates. Captain Ahmed Ali Kreeb, head of the workshop, said that the workshop will be open from 6am to 7pm.
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