Motorists may not get any longer scot-free after breaking traffic rules on the roads as Uttarakhand police has introduced its City Patrol Unit (CPU) service in Haldwani on Friday. State Director General of Police BS Sidhhu, while flagging off CPU, here said that CPU service had been first launched in Dehradun on April 1, 2014. Haridwar came up next to avail the service, he said.
“Following the success of this service, we have now launched it in Haldwani. We hope it would help regulate the motorists on roads and more importantly, save life from any road accidents,” he added. “Before CPU was launched in Dehradun about 500 people died every year on roads as many two-wheelers were driving without helmet. However, with strict enforcement of use of helmet by CPU, the number of death involving two-wheelers came down to 250,” he added.
“In Haldwani, CPU would make sure that the motorists and bikers to adhere to laws. They would keep a hawk-eyed vigil to stop triple riding and riding on two-wheelers without helmet, drunk driving and the like,” he asserted. CPU officials said the unit would also help to rein in the miscreants who escape after committing crimes like snatching chains. Among others, DIG (Kumaon range) PS Sailal, District Magistrate Nainital, Deepak Rawat, SSP, Nainital, Senthil Avoodai and SSP, Udham Singh Nagar, Neelesh Anand Bharne were present on the occasion.