Curbing Road Accidents

Mohammed Younus :

Traffic Police is creating awareness and educating the masses on ways to minimise road accidents by adopting state-of-the-art technology and also bring down traffic violations in the city. With two of its Traffic Training Institutions (TTI) taking lead in the training and education part, the department has been overseeing the enforcement of modern techniques in traffic management. Traffic police authorities are taking up the growing vehicle numbers as a challenge and implementing the rules chalked out for traffic management in a non-contact manner.

Additional Commissioner Traffic Jitender said that more focus was given to the offences that affect the safety of general public. He said, “We generally keep a check on cell-phone driving, over speeding, red-light jumping, ziz-zag driving, rash driving, drunken driving and other such offences that directly affects the safety of others.” He said that to stop the offenses the traffic police was issuing challans to the offenders through an e-challan system without causing the traffic snarls at the place of offense.

We collect the data of offenders from our CCTV cameras and hand cameras given to the traffic sleuths and send the offenders an e-challan. We also conduct breath analyser test every week to check for the drunken driving cases, he informed. The city has an integrated signaling system, only one among any city of the country, to manage the easy flow of the traffic, he said.On the other hand TTI Goshamahal Sub Inspector M Srinivasulu said that training is arranged for the cops and for the general people by the institute.

“Police officials of all ranks coming from other branches of policing to traffic undergo a week-long training at our institute”, he said. He informed that the institute also indulges in arranging counseling for the offenders of drunken driving, rash driving and over speeding on the roads.