Recruit more policemen

Photo: STARDr. SN Mamoon, On e-mail

Many letters and suggestions have been put forward regarding facilitating and easing the prevailing unbearable chaotic traffic jam situation in Dhaka city and also in other district towns. Every day we find that a lone traffic policeman is managing road traffic at important and chaotic road points. Many of the drivers are impatient, ill-mannered, impolite and easily given to quarrels. We noticed that it is not humanly possible for a single person to facilitate movement of motorized, non-motorized vehicles. They are overworked and over-stressed. In short, it has become an absolute necessity and imperative to deploy more traffic policemen at all the points for better and efficient management of road traffic.

Traffic police department should categorize the traffic points in four grades like 'very severe, severe, moderate and mild' and station traffic policeman according to the grading-' four, three, two and one traffic policemen'.

It may be worth mentioning that most of the police stations in the country are also suffering from lack of adequate manpower resulting in less police patrol, delay in investigations etc. Utmost emphasis and top priority should be given to 'road traffic management and police related activities' as these are our every day problems. Road traffic situation and law and order situation cannot be improved if adequate trained manpower is not provided to the implementing agencies.

We urge upon the Honourable Home Minister, the home ministry and the authorities concerned to recruit more traffic policemen to man the traffic points, police stations etc and thus mitigate peoples' sufferings and efficiently serve the people.