Panaji (Goa): The Traffic Cell of Goa Police will soon mark its presence on What’s app to facilitate people to report traffic violations, an initiative after an ongoing successful stint on Facebook and Gmail.
The online service to lodge complaints come in the wake of increasing number of violations reported on a daily basis at places and during the time when traffic personnel are not on-duty.
“A traffic personnel cannot be everywhere, every time but this does not mean that enforcement is improper. While the personnel are deployed at strategic locations to man the traffic and cracked down on violators, there are a till certain areas left where they cannot be present. A person can very well help the department to report violations by taking a video or photo of the incident and post it on the social media of the traffic police,” SP (Traffic) Devesh Kumar Mahla said.
The IPS officer who has been on a mission to ensure traffic rules are followed across all the streets also revealed about raining complaints on Gmail. “Around 50 email complaints with evidences come to us daily. Similarly, people also take to Facebook of Traffic police to report the violations. We act accordingly,” he said adding, “An initiate on What’s app is in pipeline subject to approval from the director general of police. As it is approved, we will create a common What’s app number for the people.”
With 68 accident prone zones and 37 black spots identified, the higher officers are now accompanying enforcement officials to monitor the movement of the traffic. “We personally inspect the traffic scenario at different locations. The shifts change every two hours or so,” he added.
While appealing people to follow traffic laws for their own safety, the top bosses have personal account on Twitter which, Mahla said could also be used to point violations.
Meanwhile, considering increasing number of accidents on the Portuguese-era Patto causeway the SP has proposed the DGP to convert the entire stretch into one-way or go gor widening of the road or place dividers. Being a narrow stretch , Mahla claimed it is impossible to enforce traffic laws there.
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