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Traffic cops buoyed by the drive

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: A week into the enforcement drive against those giving traffic rules a miss, a semblance of order seems to have come on to the Capital's roads, even as the traffic police have raked up over Rs. 2 crore in fines.

Senior traffic police officers are buoyed by the response to the drive and claim that the number of accidents has come down in the past week. By Sunday night, the traffic police had prosecuted 50,699 violators, collected Rs. 2,31,00,000 in fines, punched 8,584 licences and impounded 2028 vehicles.

"There is a fear factor among people that is acting as the deterrent," said Joint Commissioner of Police (Traffic) Qamar Ahmed. "It would be the ultimate achievement when compliance due to fear becomes a voluntary one."

According to Mr. Ahmed, certain offences like not stopping before the stop light and not wearing the uniforms have come down drastically.

"The use of pressure horn has come down and so has pasting films on glasses of vehicles," said Mr. Ahmed. "As far as commercial vehicles like buses and RTVs go, about 90 per cent of the drivers and conductors now wear uniform and use the seat belt," said Deputy Commissioner of Police (Traffic) Southern Range D. P. Verma.

To a large extent these vehicles are following the rules of lane driving, wherever the system is available, he claimed. "In the past 15 days, the number of accidents has visibly come down in the area, though these are still early days," said Deputy Commissioner of Police (Traffic) New Delhi Range Suvashish Choudhary. Taking care not to let the momentum go, the traffic police are planning new strategies to keep the enforcement drive effective. "We will now spread out to cover new areas and will also change the time of checks," said Mr. Choudhary. Checks will be conducted during early morning as well as evening hours and the locations would also be changed, he added.

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