Sir,

The recent news of intensified vehicle inspection in our city both by the Traffic and Civil Police is a good initiative, but when it comes to ground reality, it is an entirely different story.

It is common to see how the traffic offenders learn about vehicle inspection on the road ahead, with he or she being cautioned with a  ‘signal’ or a shout-out from ‘friendly’ commuters coming from the opposite direction.

Alerted, the offenders without thinking twice take an alternate route to dodge the Police. This has become very childish now and almost everyone is aware about the same.

The ones who escape are usually people with grave violations and most visibly don’t wear a helmet or have gross irregularities or offences to their name.

The people who get ‘caught’ most of the times are usually good mannered people who have everything in order sans some minor things which they are truly unaware (say Fitness Certificate, Emission Certificate etc.). This is the most unjust and unscientific method of bringing offences to a halt.

The Traffic Police should at least now rely on modern equipment and technology like CCTV cameras at all the major junctions, drones, Interceptor vehicles with real-time speed trackers, posting Policemen with HD cameras and body cameras etc., to monitor real traffic offenders who are a nuisance to public.

I can assure that despite such checking drives, most of the cases of overspeeding, triple and quadruple riding, helmetless riding, driving on the wrong side and other such gross offences go unnoticed and continues unabated.

Hence I request the City Traffic Police, who are now busy collecting traffic fines (at 50 per cent discount) to kindly make use of  newer technologies so that the ‘real’ traffic violators are caught,  instead of law-abiding motorists.

– Dr. Suhail Azam Khan, N.R. Mohalla, 5.2.2023

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