SHILLONG, OCT 14: If you are caught without wearing a helmet and seat belt while driving, be ready to sit for a two hours of counselling.
The Shillong Traffic Police is all set to implement the ‘Road Safety Education and Counselling’ for traffic violators who are caught violating traffic rules like driving without helmet and failure to put on seat belt with immediate effect.
According to the East Khasi Hills District Superintendent of Police (SP) M Kharkrang, the programme is being launched in compliance of the recommendation of the Supreme Court Committee on Road Safety.
He said, “The violators will be subjected to two hours of counselling and they are expected that in future they do not violate traffic rules again.”
“The counselling classes will be held twice a month for two hours,” Kharkrang added.
Meanwhile, the East Khasi Hills District Police is contemplating to make Sadar Police State, a model Police Station for all other police stations of the district.
“Sadar Police Station has all the amenities and infrastructure of a modern Police Station like separate Women Police Station, Traffic Branch, Control Room, Counselling Centres, Barracks,” the SP said.
To reach this bench mark in the first phase, Kharkrang informed, “We have opened traffic branches with traffic control room in all the Police Stations of the city, like Women Police Station in Sadar PS a deployment of women Police officers and staff have been added to all Police Stations who will take up all women related crime and issues.”
Once CCTV coverage is expanded separate CCTV control rooms will also be set up in other Police Station, he said adding “We have set Sadar Police Station as a bench mark for other Police Stations though at a lower scale.”
Stating that police stations symbolize the presence of the Police organisation in the community, and provides an assurance of security to the people in general, he said that the public can rest at ease believing that there is a place that provides safety, security, relief, help and assistance to them in their hour of need.
He also said that the Police Station is the basic and most important unit of Police administration in India as it is the platform for interaction between the community and the Police.
“To carry out our commitment, each Police station has to be equipped with basic infrastructure for which we are striving,” the SP added. – By Our Reporter
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