CCTV cameras in Duhuk to monitor driving violations

DUHUK / IraqiNews.com: Closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras will be installed in different parts of Duhuk to monitor driving offences in the province’s streets, a media official from the local traffic department said on Thursday. “The installation campaign will being in a few days,” Captain al-Haqouqi Nayef Khalaf told IraqiNews.com news agency. A German company has provided the province with five cameras to identify motorists who commit driving offences, Khalaf added. Also spelled Duhok, Dohuk Dehok or Dahok; it is a city in the far northern part of Iraq to the borders with Turkey. It has about 500,000 inhabitants, mostly consisting of Kurds and Assyrians. According to some sources, the name “Duhuk” comes from Kurmanji Kurdish meaning “small village”. Circled by mountains along the Tigris river, Duhuk, the third province with Iraq’s Kurdistan region, has a growing tourist industry. Its population grew extremely since the 1990s as the rural population moved to the cities. Since the 2003 invasion of Iraq by the United States, Duhuk and Iraqi Kurdistan in general have remained the only safe places for foreigners. SS (S)/SR 1