Presiding over a meeting of traffic police, Capital City Police Officer (CCPO), Niaz Ahmed Siddiqui said on Tuesday that the Electronic Traffic Management System would soon be introduced and the traffic police would be provided with all the technological support to further improve its performance.
He asked the traffic police officers to inform his office about all the requirements in a week so that such things could be provided at the earliest.
CCPO said improving the performance of traffic police was aimed at serving the citizens effectively and asked the officials to keep this basic point in their mind while on duty. "Their spirit to serve and polite attitude to the citizens would help promote harmony among the community and the police," he added.
Another thing, the traffic police officials have to keep in mind was that challaning the vehicles aimed to make the motorists/drivers abide by the traffic rules and not to generate revenue.
He said the work was underway on simplifying the payment of challans. He informed the meeting that a separate Traffic Investigation Unit was being set up that would work under the supervision of DIG Traffic to investigate traffic accidents and the cases of violation of traffic rules.
He said the surveillance cameras would be used for monitoring the traffic system and through such recordings of violation of traffic rules, the citizens would be educated to abide by the law.
CCPO further said that a proposal was under consideration to raise salaries and other privileges of the traffic police like those of motorway police so that it could be made an exemplary force. He asked the traffic police to ensure that all the vehicles must observe traffic rules, be it an official vehicle and even the police vehicle. CCPO hoped that the traffic police would maintain the system during Ramazan like it did on the occasion of Shab-e-Barat.
He repeated his earlier directives that the traffic police officials should regulate the traffic at the signals and the documents of vehicles should only be checked in the presence of SP traffic.
About the no-parking zones, he advised that microphone should be used for informing the people, besides double yellow lane should be painted to highlight the no-parking zones. In case any vehicles disturb the traffic, it should not be lifted but towed away, he stressed. He assured that the big lifters and cranes would be provided to the traffic police for removing heavy vehicles. DIG Traffic Falak Khurshed, SPs of all the traffic zones, Khuram Gulzar, Muzaffar Shaikh, Dawood Junejo and others attended the meeting.
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