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Written by priyank
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Saturday, 04 February 2012 03:49 |
City needs more policemen to put order in traffic: JCP
With 950 traffic cops to man 27.6 lakh vehicles plying on city roads daily, the cop-vehicle ratio is about 1: 30,000
Hemington.James
Posted On Friday, February 03, 2012 at 02:27:46 AM
Ahmedabad was never known for its smooth traffic. Visitors would attribute the pandemonium on streets to the lack of traffic sense of the Amdavadis. Lack of adequate number of traffic cops only adds to the chaos.
City has more than 4 lakh four-wheelers, including school buses, police vans, trucks tractors and ambulances
According to official figures, the city traffic police are functioning with 30 to 35 per cent fewer staff than the sanctioned strength even as the population and the number of vehicles on roads grow geometrically. Little wonder, they are overburdened, unfocussed and stressed besides suffering from lung diseases, as a recent survey revealed.
There are only about 950 traffic cops in the city as against the sanctioned strength of 1,353. This includes police inspectors, sub inspectors and constables. Now, compare this with the number of vehicles plying on road daily — 27.6 lakh — and you get a vehicle to cop ratio of 1:30,000.
There are about 20 lakh two-wheelers in the city and more than 4 lakh four-wheelers, including school buses, police vans, trucks tractors and ambulances. Auto-rickshaws number a few lakhs. Owing to the shortage of staff, including women cops, the department has not been able to enforce traffic rules effectively.
“Yes it is true that we have shortage of staff and the work is affected due to that. We are managing with the existing staff, but we need more hands,” said in-charge Joint Commissioner of Police (traffic) Nilesh Jajadia.
“The work is badly affected. Traffic police are needed not only on junctions but also to patrol interior streets. At junctions we need a few of them as some manage the traffic while others catch the offenders. Yet, there are junctions where traffic police are absent as we just don’t have enough hands to manage such a big city,” he said.
Jajadia said that patrolling the interior parts of city was affected due to lack of numbers. “We need more man power to put city traffic on track,” said Jajadia.
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