Alarmed over the accident spree continuing to take toll of lives, the state director general of police Anil K Raturi asked the police officers and personnel to give as much importance to traffic management as they give to maintaining law and order. He said this while presiding over a video conference with the district officers at police headquarters on Thursday.
DGP said that the district police chiefs have been directed to review status on road accidents in their districts and take necessary steps to check them.
The police officers must analyse the reasons and go for the required steps to stop them from recurring. Besides, the district police officers must go for on the spot inspection of the black spots and inform the police headquarters about the measures taken to correct things in a fortnight.
State additional director general of police (law and order) Ashok Kumar said that main reasons of road accidents are rash/ drunk driving and over- loading besides poor road conditions and drivers being untrained.
DGP directed the district police chiefs to ensure that the district police officer inspects the accident sites themselves where two or more people die while the police station in-charge would be sent to the spots when the accidents are of lesser magnitude. He stressed on joint inspection along with transport and public works department officers. Warning sign boards, parapets and reflectors must be installed too along the vulnerable stretches, the state police chief said.
He further said that the Hill Patrol Unit to be set up in the hill districts for traffic management on the lines of the City Patrol Unit would conduct surprise checking drives aside from checking liquor smuggling and drug peddling. “We must go all-out to stop accidents as far as possible.