Uttarakhand Director General of Police BS Sidhu flagged off motorcycle-borne city patrol units in Dehradun on Tuesday to enforce traffic regulations and act as swift response team for crimes like chain snatching, eve teasing and other offences in the city.
The city patrol units displayed methods of dealing with road accidents, use of mobile phone while driving, drunken driving, overspeeding, other traffic violations and its work as a swift response team for crimes like chain snatching, eve-teasing and other offences reported in the police control room. After launching the units, Sidhu said that this is a specialised unit will be deployed for traffic regulation, containment of road accidents and intervention in road crimes.
The units comprise two personnel each on a total of 12 motorcycles of which 10 bikes will be deployed on roads in different areas and two would be kept in reserve. The teams are equipped with modern tools and are well trained. Each motorcycle borne unit is handled by one sub-inspector and one constable with a wireless set and a video camera for filming developments while in action.
The units will be in touch with the control room and the activities will be logged in the control room via wireless set. They would have a sidearm, bluetooth mike, alcometer and others. A jeep with personnel will also be deployed as backup for the unit in case of emergency, he added. In the first phase, the city patrol unit has been launched in Dehradun and later it would be introduced in Haridwar, Nainital and Udham Singh Nagar districts.
Police in the city patrol units have been selected on merit and trained for two months on law, traffic rules and other aspects. The team members have been directed to behave politely during their operations. The units will cover Clock Tower, Darshanlal Chowk, lansdowne Chowk- Kanak Chowk - Astley Hall, Pacific Hotel, Globe Chowk, Dilaram Chowk, Rajpur Road, Jakhan diversion, DIT University, Kishannagar, Balliwala, Ballupur, Cantt area, Tehsil Chowk, Prince Chowk, Saharanpur Chowk, Kanwali Road, Saharanpur Road, Patelnagar, GMS Road, Shimla bypass, ISBT, Canal Road, IT Park, Sahastradhara Road, Nannys Bakery intersection, EC Road, Survey Chowk, Dalanwala Cross Road, Araghar, Dharampur Chowk, Nehru Colony, Ring Road, Jogiwala, Shastrinagar, Rispana and Kargi. The DGP (intelligence) SK Bhagat, ADGP Ram Singh Meena, DIGs SK Shukla, GN Goswami, Amit Sinha, Dehradun SSP Ajay Rautela and other police officers were also present on the occasion.