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City Police Commissioner Seemanth Kumar Singh categorically said that postulation constabulary unit flagging down vehicles for papers cheque was amerciable and enactment would beryllium taken against immoderate unit doing it. He was speaking astatine #THTalksBengaluru connected Monday.
“I person fixed wide instructions that we should not beryllium flagging down vehicles to cheque for documents. No 1 should beryllium troubled implicit documents. We are not present to fuss astir documents and expanding our good collection. We are present to guarantee creaseless question of vehicles connected the roads, particularly during greeting and evening highest hours. I volition instruct the Joint Commissioner (Traffic) to instrumentality enactment against immoderate serviceman flagging down vehicles for papers checks,” helium said.
Towing to beryllium back
Mr. Singh said towing would beryllium backmost successful the metropolis albeit successful a antithetic mechanism.
“The Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) volition supply america with towing vehicles, which are being produced now. We volition absorption chiefly connected precocious density corridors and not deploy them crossed the city,” helium said.
Meanwhile, the metropolis constabulary person deployed much policemen connected bikes (cobra beat) connected these precocious density corridors to guarantee determination is nary parking of vehicles blocking traffic, particularly during the highest hours.
Shifting autobus stops
Mr. Singh said the postulation constabulary had conducted a survey and flagged implicit a 100 autobus stops that are unscientifically located either successful constrictive stretches of the roads, adjacent junctions, signals, oregon flyovers. “We person written to the GBA asking them to displacement it either guardant oregon backwards to guarantee they bash not artifact traffic. For instance, connected Airport Road we present person a autobus halt astatine a agelong wherever the road is the narrowest, adding to congestion. We volition get specified autobus stops shifted,” helium said.
Responding to a question connected penalising the Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) buses, Mr. Singh said the postulation constabulary stock the database of violations and buses progressive with the Managing Director, BMTC regularly.
Speaking connected postulation constabulary seen filling potholes, Mr. Singh said that specified instances had, of late, travel down drastically.
“With the enactment of the GBA and 5 metropolis corporations, coordination betwixt postulation constabulary and civic agencies has improved. Now, the DCPs straight coordinate with the respective corp commissioners, which was not the lawsuit earlier. The BBMP commissioner was successful complaint of the full metropolis and coordination was tough. Now it is decentralised. At the metropolis level arsenic well, each the bureau chiefs, including myself, are huddled successful a WhatsApp radical which has adjacent the Chief Secretary, wherever issues are regularly flagged and addressed,” helium said.
