Over 1,000 Cops Violate Traffic Rules

A recent bid by the Hyderabad City Police, to taste its own medicine, is proving too bitter for its comfort.

Apparently to prove that most of the policemen in the city were law-abiding, the Traffic wing had started a special drive against police vehicles, on 11 August.

However, it took just a week for the city police to realise that it is easier to implement laws by force than to follow them.

In a special drive that lasted for merely 7 days, the Hyderabad City Traffic Police booked 1,369 cases, all related to human error:

Driving on the wrong side - 155
"Stop" line violation - 163
Signal jumping - 90
Wrong parking - 279
Triple riding - 42
Talking on cell phone while driving - 13
Irregular Number plate - 403
Improper documents - 224

All these offences were, clearly, avoidable, and this unique drive (credit for which goes to Additional CP (Traffic) C V Anand) has unmasked the 'human face' of policemen.

The Traffic Police have also collected a fine amount of Rs. 3,28,600 from the violations mentioned here. However, it is not clarified whether the violators had paid the fine amount on their own or whether it would be paid by the Department.

"Apart from the manual challan, photos were taken by surveillance cameras and still cameras with our traffic police personnel, and 45 e-challans were generated against police vehicles in the last one week," CV Anand said.

4 e-challans were issued based on the photographs of violations uploaded on Facebook.

From Friday onwards, Hyderabad Traffic Police will book violations by government vehicles (except police vehicles) - statistics of which promise to be even more shocking than the ones from the recent drive. (INN)