The Islamabad Traffic Police (ITP) has obtained new cameras to monitor vehicular speed on the city roads. These gadgets will be installed at all the main boulevards of the city to control over-speeding as well as rash driving by the motorists.
Traffic Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Dr Moeen Masood said that in a meeting held here at his office on Tuesday, said a press statement issued here.
He said all the police officials would be given training about the use of the new technology.
The meeting was attended, among others, by Traffic SP Mir Vaiz Niaz, all zonal DSPs, and others. The SSP said that it was the top priority of ITP to ensure road discipline in the city and utmost efforts were being made to accomplish this task.
He said over-speeding was the main cause of road accidents and ITP personnel were working very efficiently to control that violation to make Islamabad an accident-free city.
Masood said the cameras would be installed initially at Margallah Road, the 7th avenue, Islamabad Expressway, Kashmir Highway, Murree Road, Park Road and other important avenues.
He said that ITP would launch an educational campaign to control speed violations and special brochures would be also distributed to disseminate a message on road safety.
Masood directed all the beat officers to give recommendations for better traffic flow in their respective areas. He urged the officials to ensure full implementation of traffic rules.
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