Karnataka - Bangalore   

Involve volunteers in policing roads: DGP

BANGALORE: The city police have been asked to take steps to involve more number of people in the enforcement of traffic rules. Launching ‘No Honking Day’, which is to be observed by Mission Peace on December 1, Director-General and Inspector-General of Police R. Sri Kumar said an institutional framework needed to be devised so that people were involved in regulation of traffic and registering cases against violators.

“Provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code can be used to designate some persons as honorary magistrates, who will collect spot fines. More number of traffic wardens can be used,” Mr. Sri Kumar said. “This will solve the problem of lack of staff for traffic enforcement,” he added.

Mr. Sri Kumar asked the city police to make use of the power vested with the Police Commissioner in taking stern action against persons who were repeatedly violating traffic rules. He asked the Transport Commissioner Bhaskar Rao to complete the work of computerisation of records in Regional Transport Offices.

Earlier, the former High Court Judge M.F. Saldanha sought cooperation from people and organisations in working towards reducing sound pollution. “It not only affects hearing but also causes other health problems. Autorickshaw drivers, bus drivers and policemen are the most affected persons,” he said. The idea behind observing “No Honking Day” was not of policing but to convince people and take their cooperation in living a longer life, he said.

Director of HOSMAT Thomas Chandy said acceptable level of hearing sound was 65 decibel. Prolonged exposure to sound of more than 80 decibel was turning many drivers deaf. Mr. Bhaskar Rao said there was a need for a law on use of four-stoke vehicles in the city that produced less sound. Mr. Rao said driving schools should train drivers in driving ethics.

Additional Commissioner of Police (Traffic) Praveen Sood, Commissioner of Traffic and Road Safety M.V. Murthy and president of Mission Peace Sunita de Sousa spoke.

Printer friendly page  
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail

Stories in this Section

Celebrating 50 golden years
Young artists prepare themselves for D-Day
Pooches to strut their stuff
Welfare fund remittance
Man escapes with bag containing Rs. 3.82 lakh
Traditional Mysore Silk goes trendy
Award for emergency care
Air India tickets get cheaper
‘Don’t overload anganwadi workers with data collection’
Protest by Vedike
Exim Bank on credit risk management
Court permits State to have a re-look into KMF accounts
Independent judiciary essential: Dinakaran
Threatens to boycott election
‘Rally norms will be uniform across State’
Idea to be placed before Congress leadership
Balekundri Chair to be established at VTU
Staggered holiday goes
Helping the young discover joys of reading
Gravel supply stops
BBMP sets up call centre for complaints about buildings
‘Nisha’ chills Bangalore
Girl rescued from her employers
Residents demand shifting of Biocon insulin plant
Bus strike from December 15, unions demand pay parity
Four held
Set up a fund for workers affected by global meltdown, says V.J.K. Nair
BBMP union backs property tax system
Students gear up for Ushus
Convocation
Metro notice to East Coast
Harassment suspected behind ex-DAE official’s suicide
Garment industry may get power subsidy
Bank penalised
Involve volunteers in policing roads: DGP
Mangalore men named in blasts
In Bangalore Today

Copyright © 2008, The Hindu. Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without the written consent of The Hindu