The Gurgaon Police on Wednesday issued around 15,000 challans for various traffic violations. The crackdown was part of the traffic police’s latest initiative - Zero Tolerance Day.
The drive started at 8 a.m. and went on till 11 p.m. More than 300 cops, almost 85 per cent of the total strength of the traffic police wing, were on roads at 100 spots identified by DCP (Traffic) Vinod Kaushik for the drive.
The traffic cops were also helped by over 25 road safety officers.
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Although there was a minor hiccup when the police ran out of receipts as all challan books were used up, but the fresh supplies were procured soon enough and the drive went on. “There were nine zone teams and 24 teams from various police stations deployed across the city,” said a senior police officer.
The, Zero Tolerance Day, a first of its kind initiative of the Gurgaon Police, is aimed at ensuring enforcement of rules and regulations and setting the “right example”.
The policemen focussed mainly on offences of jumping traffic signals, rash driving, smoking while driving, wrong parking, over speeding, wrong lane driving and wrong parking.“I had not seen so many cops on the city roads earlier. It seems the police were present everywhere,” said Neeraj Sheoran, a software engineer, who was fined for not wearing a seat belt.
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“Usually, 1000-1,500 challans are issued during a day. But we had set a target of around 10,000-12,000 for Wednesday. And we managed to not just meet the target but also cross it. It is an initiative of the Gurgaon Police and the day will be observed at least once in a month,” said Assistant Commissioner of Police Bakshi.
Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar had recently announced that 50 per cent of the funds collected from challans would be used to improve the road and traffic infrastrucutre from where the fine was collected.
The traffic cops were also helped by over 25 road safety officers