Of all the photographic fines recorded in the City of Buenos Aires in 2006, only 0.85% was for bus lines. A report by the Auditor General Buenos Aires (AGCBA, for its acronym in Spanish) notes that it is not known whether the "low" percentage is due to a lack of control, or because the bus drivers do not commit traffic violations, "which is not consistent with the factual reality.”

The service is run by the Meller and Itrón Ute contractor, which must be controlled from the Government of the City and by the Directorate General of Administration Offences (DGAI, for its acronym in Spanish). The Audit states that the DGAI does not verify the work of the company and sometimes cannot even know how the provision is developed. For example, although 5,977 fines that the firm filed following formal defects were detected, that is, for any failure in the making of the record, the Department made no discount on the $ 18 million it cost the system in audited period.

Manual fines, meanwhile, are executed by the National Technological University (UTN, for its acronym in Spanish), which was hired for $7,233,000. The report notes that "there is no record" that is known that accepted that the DGAI could hire the UTN for their service. Also, Offences stated that it could not access the computer system that manages the University who, nevertheless, did not complete any action to ensure that access.

The Directorate of Offences provides the right of defense for all citizens who are have received a fine, considering that there are causes that can mitigate or nullify any sanctions. That is, the alleged perpetrators must be brought to DGAI, which evaluates the records to provide equitable penalties on the same faults.

But for the mechanism to work, offenders must be informed of their fines. The audit revealed that "no citations were made in any cases" where a violation of traffic rules is detected, and points out variants are calls for the DGAI: the "manual offenses" involving serious offenses not subject to voluntary payment; which make up the item "several" - non-transitory failures-; the "manuals faults discarded" by the UTN following a formal defect; and "photo fines discarded" also by formal shortcomings.

In addition, the Department does not track any of these variants and, according to the AGCBA, this is a "little analysis" of the universe under their orbit. Most tickets prescribe because the name of the driver is not specified. However, the Audit found "undue delay" in the treatment of fines, so that both the UTN as well as the company Meller and Itrón Ute must file a lot of files because of prescription.

Calling the motorists is a task that falls to the DGAI but that is not met, inter alia, by the "lack of transparency" in the income of the minutes to the body. The documents worked by the staff are not put in one place, the table entries for example, are not recorded in a unified way, the report explains.

The Buenos Aires Audit adds that there is "a mismatch in the amounts of revenue from fines from the General Accounting Office and the DGAI." For the same period analyzed, the watchdog asked twice that total to the General Accounting Office, in the first instance, reported revenue of $75,097,551.28, but then announced another figure: $72,791,007. Meanwhile, the General Treasury of the DGAI filed discrimination "but without the detail needed for analysis" says the AGCBA’s report in communicating for a third time that the total was for $53,405,930.20.

On the side of the contractors, the watchdog reported a "poor exercise" of its work. Beyond what happens to bus companies, there are cases where the amount of the fine is greater than the maximum or less than the minimum established by the legislation, and records where fines were established for a private car, but was actually for a unit that carries passengers.