The Delhi Police held an award ceremony on Tuesday for Traffic Sentinel Scheme to award the sentinels who have made maximum points in the scheme. This scheme has been launched by Delhi traffic police to empower the general public by participating in traffic management where one can report traffic violation via mobile app of Delhi Police.
In the ceremony winners were awarded with gift vouchers while Kavita Tholia won the first prize scoring 8,057 points and received a scooty. Ravi Prakash Sharma won second prize scoring 7,848 points and Mayank Tyagi received third prize, scoring 4,098 points.
Kavita Tholia, teacher by profession said, “A few years ago I had lost one of my family members in road accident. And since then I got impressed with Traffic Sentinel Scheme by capturing pictures and videos on traffic violation regularly. I have sent around 2,000 videos and photos to the Traffic Sentinel Mobile App for the last two years.”
According to the police data, 7,000 traffic sentinel requests have been received till date and 13,1000 traffic violation reports have been registered.
Alok Kumar Verma, Commissioner of Police, Delhi said, “Why have other people been left behind when a women scored 8,000 pointsIJ More people should participate in this activity. I want people to wear helmet for their own safety. Mostly accidents happen in the city with two wheelers and maximum people get injured for not wearing helmets.”
“Follow traffic rules are like discipline of life and everyone should take it like their regular activity and share it to others”, he added.
Moreover, other people also shared their experience with traffic issues where they get assurance from the Department and discussed about the traffic sentinels mobile app as many people were not aware and familiar with the app.
According to official statistics, police spent more than Rs 2.18 crore on advertisements to promote the scheme, and the experience is people warmed up to it. Statistics show people reported as many as 1,31,467 instances of suspected traffic violations.