Daily Times

LAHORE: The traffic police authorities have finalised a plan to provide missing facilities, including telephone lines and computers, at 34 traffic sectors in the provincial capital during the next two months. Currently, there is not landline phone facility, furniture and computers available at the traffic sectors. In this connection, Lahore Chief Traffic Officer (CTO) Rai Ijaz had visited several traffic sectors to identify missing facilities and subsequently decided to make all traffic sectors well-equipped. It was revealed during the inspection of sectors that traffic officials were manually working and contacting each other via radio message or cell phones, as there were no computers and landline telephone facilities. According to the plan, on room each would be allocated for duty officers, record-keeping and routine ticketing process. Besides, it has also been decided to set up a waiting room for visitors and a parking lot for impounded vehicles and motorcycles at each traffic sector. A senior traffic police officer, requesting anonymity, told Daily Times that a majority of traffic sectors was in a pathetic condition, while officers were compelled to carry out work manually due to unavailability of computers. He added that former chief traffic police officer Captain (r) Syed Ahmad Mobin, who was earlier martyred in a suicide attack on The Mall, had started several initiatives for welfare of traffic police, which were being materialised by the incumbent CTO. He said that traffic sectors should be established as per international standards to give a pleasant environment to people visiting them.