Substandard helmets: PSQCA asked to cancel NOCs of firms

Chief of the Traffic Police Sindh ask Pakistan Standard and Quality Control Authority (PSQCA) for cancellation of NOCs of the firms which are manufacturing sub-standard helmets saying that these helmets are root cause of most of the death of motorcyclists as a result of road accidents.
Additional Inspector General of Police (AIGP) Traffic Sindh Karachi, Ghulam Qadir Thebo in a letter to Director General (DG) PSQCA expressed serious concerns on the basis of data of fatal road accidents that most of the victims (motorcyclists) died in such accidents as a consequence of penetrating of broken sub-standard plastic into their skulls. If the helmets had not been of sub-standard material, the loss of precious lives of the motorcyclists in such road accidents could have been avoided.
Apart from causing death of the motorcyclists, the other drawback of these sub-standard helmets is that they are also being used by the criminals to commit target killing/street crime because it is easy for the criminals to hide their faces behind the dark glasses of such helmets while robbing the citizens of their valuables on gunpoint, the letter said.
Thus the manufacturing and sale of these sub-standard helmets is a national hazard. Hence it is imperative to cancel the NOCs of the firms which are manufacturing and marketing such sub-standard helmets by notifying them a policy by your authority that only those firms manufacturing quality based helmets will be given NOC to market the same for use by the general public.
Such policy should make it binding upon the manufactures of helmets that they will use the durable material and fix transparent glasses in the helmets so that faces of those using such helmets could easily be seen, he advised. These measures will not only curtail the death graph of motorcyclists in the road accidents but will result in identifying and arresting the culprits involved in street crimes because the transparent glasses of the helmets will no more protect their identity.
I would, therefore, request that the NOCs of all the firms which are manufacturing and marketing the sub-standard helmets may please be cancelled thereby issuing a policy of passing the quality of the helmets which are of quality material having transparent glasses and meet the European standards.