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Traffic police authorise children to warn traffic law violators

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad Traffic Police (ITP) have launched a kids traffic awareness programme and authorised children to issue verbal warning to drivers on traffic rules violations.

ITP teams visited schools and conducted test about traffic rules after delivering lectures. The candidates who qualified the test were issued cards valid for one year. The card holders can issue verbal warning to drivers found violating speed limit, not stooping on red light, using cell phone, parking vehicles on zebra crossing and no parking areas would get verbal warnings from the children.

Sultan Azam Temuri, the traffic senior superintendent of police (SSP), said that creating civic sense among children was essential. “We are focusing on school-going children about traffic rules,” he said.

The SSP said that during rush hours (7am to 9am and 1pm to 3pm), traffic was controlled manually to facilitate road-users. “Especially in the areas having cluster of schools, police officers are deputed to control traffic before and after school hours,” he said. The SSP said that approximately 250 students were being provided pick and drop facility daily by the shuttle service. He said that the ITP was also considering running more buses for school-children so that traffic mess at peak hours could be reduced.

Temuri urged parents to send at least four neighbouring children in one vehicle instead of separate motors, adding that would be helpful to avoid traffic mess in the morning and after school timings, the SSP said. He said that more than 1,915 drivers from various government departments had also been imparted education about traffic rules during the last six months.

Free lip and palate clefts surgery from Sept 15 to 25: The Pakistan Cleft Lip and Palate Association (PCLAPA) on Sunday announced free of cost surgical operations for people with a deformed lip or palate from September 15 to 25 at the Bashir Hospital, Gujrat. A team of internationally renowned British and UK-based Pakistani plastic surgeons will perform the operations. Cleft surgery cures patients with a cut lip or palate, or both – disabilities that not only disfigure the patient’s face, but also affect routine activities like eating and drinking, besides causing psychological suffering, the PCLAPA said in a press release.

The PCLAPA has so far organised 16 such camps in which over 6,000 patients were examined and 1,100 underwent surgery, said Dr Ijaz Bashir, the secretary general of PCLAPA. The PCLAPA is a registered charitable institution, and is funded by private donations. The centre has been offering free of cost surgery and treatment since 1995. Patients are also provided accommodation at the hospital. app

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