The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has yet not fulfilled the capital police’s demands for the construction of prefabricated security posts in various parts of the city aimed at providing permanent shelter for officers while beautifying the city. “The Capital Police requested the CDA to construct standardised shelters for police officials at security check posts and kiosks for traffic police officers in the city at a meeting four months ago, but CDA officials have turned a deaf ear to the police’s demands,” an official said.
He said that the meeting was attended by CDA Chairman Imtiaz Inayat Elahi and former Inspector General of Police (IGP) Wajid Ali Durrani. After the meeting, Elahi had directed the director general of planning to provide standardised prefabricated security posts and kiosks which would enhance the city’s beauty at the earliest, but the CDA had made no efforts in this regard, he said.
The official said the absence of proper shelters is creating problems for policemen deployed there.
The Capital Police have established hundreds of security posts in the city, but there are no proper shelters. The official said the meeting had also decided to revamp, reorganise, modernise and improve the existing traffic management system of Islamabad.
The CDA was also informed about the different constraints the capital’s traffic police faced in managing traffic properly, including the issues of U-turns, signals, bus bays, pedestrian bridges, junction improvement, lane marking and cat eyes, he said.
Traffic wardens’ absence creates a mess: Absence of traffic policemen on busy intersections of the city during Ramazan irked motorists. It has been observed that during load shedding, when the traffic signals are powered off, the policemen remain absent from the busy intersections leading to a traffic mess.
Motorists have complained that even if a traffic officer was present on the road, he did not control traffic until things got out of control.
“With traffic jams and haphazard parking coupled with hardly any traffic cop to clear the mess, it is quiet a challenge to drive on the busy Margalla Road with my kids,” said a housewife.
The residents have demanded that a traffic cops should be deployed at all intersections of the city during load shedding to regulate traffic in order to avoid a major mishap.
