Punjab Inspector General of Police Captain (retd) Usman Khatak has said that e-ticketing project is an excellent initiative for resolving the citizens’ problems regarding traffic. He directed the concerned departments to implement e-ticketing system in Lahore, promptly and overcome all the problems that are causing delay.
For a while after the e-ticketing is launched in the city e-challans should only be issued only to those traffic violators, whose vehicle details are as per their CNIC, IGP further advised. Close coordination between Safe City IC3 project and traffic police should be ensured to streamline the challan system. He said that Chief Traffic Officer Lahore Rai Ijaz and Project Director IC3 SSP Akbar Nasir should personally monitor the progress of e-ticketing project to ensure its early completion and implementation in Lahore.
IGP stated this while presiding over a meeting regarding e-ticketing held at Integrated Command, Control and Communication Centre, Lahore Monday. Managing director PSCA, DIG Ali Amir Malik, DIG Traffic Punjab Farooq Mazhar, CTO Lahore, Rai Ijaz Ahmed, SSP Safe City Project Athar Ismail and SP Mobiles Lahore, Muhammad Faisal were also present at the meeting. MD Safe City Project Ali Amir Malik, while briefing the IGP, said that data on videos made in the last month that were recorded through the ‘Safe City’ cameras are saved in the database and that the recording of terrorist activities and other serious incidents will be kept for 7 years. He told that the process of optical fiber installation is near completion and that cameras will be installed on Motorway Toll Plaza in a few weeks which will enable monitoring of all vehicles entering and exiting the city.
MD Safe City Project Ali Amir Malik, while briefing the IGP, said that data on videos made in the last month that was recorded through the ‘Safe City’ cameras has been saved in the database and that the recording of terrorist activities and other serious incidents will be kept in the database for 7 years. He told the attendees of the meeting that the process of optical fibre installation is near completion and that cameras will be installed on Motorway Toll Plaza in a few weeks that will enable the police to monitor all vehicles entering and exiting the city.
While briefing the meeting, DIG Traffic Punjab and CTO Lahore told that 9 digital sign boards for traffic awareness on 5 model roads of the city will be installed within a few weeks.
Punjab DIG Traffic further stated that the training courses of traffic wardens for their promotions will be sent to promotion boards at the earliest.
IGP directed the concerned individuals to start training courses and to promote the deserving officers.
