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Highway patrolling to be streamlined

L. Renganathan

Manual containing various key details prepared

SAFETY EFFORTS: The newly-constructed police check post-cum-accident relief centre near Kulithalai.

KARUR: Highway patrol units in Karur district are being fine tuned to effect superior patrolling and also to trigger a better response in the event of road mishaps. A new manual for the patrol units has been prepared taking into account all details pertaining to enhanced medicare and recovery efforts.

As part of the streamlining efforts, new police check points that would double up as emergency accident relief centres have been established in identified accident-prone stretches of the National Highways 7 and 67. The manual for patrol units lists details of sponsoring hospitals and ambulances replete with their contact phone and mobile numbers, fuel stations, identification of acute accident-prone areas on each of the two National Highways, halting places for the Karur and Kulithalai Highway Patrols, recovery vans and cranes.

More importantly, the manual incorporates the need for having a proper response system in place for the patrol unit personnel in case of an emergency. The response code was applicable to the Control Room and the Special Branch police personnel, according to the Superintendent of Police, K. Shankar.

Since two major National Highways crisscross the district, there was a felt need to invigorate the patrols to respond to emergent situations in a proper and reliable manner, Mr. Shankar said of the need to evolve a new manual.

As per the present needs, a total of 10 police check points cum accident relief centes, five each on the NH 7 and NH 67, have been established. On the NH 7, the centres have come up at Velayuthampalayam, Manmangalam, Thirukkampuliyur Roundtana, Sukkaliyur Roundatana and Aravakurichi, while on the NH 67 checkpoints have been put up at Thennilai, Viswanathapuri, Puliyur, Krishnarayapuram and Kulithalai, Mr. Shankar told The Hindu. Each checkpoint cum accident relief centre has been attached to a sponsoring hospital.

A total of 15 accident-prone areas have been identified on each of the two National Highways and an equal number of halting places for the two highway patrols have also been earmarked.

The manual would be released and the scheme would become operational shortly, Mr. Shankar added.

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