Staff Reporter
Port Blair, Jan 04: Call it a simple mistake or highest level of hypocrisy, on one hand the Andaman and Nicobar Police is celebrating Road Safety Week and on the other hand two vehicles of top police officers today openly violated Road Safety Norms in city. It was found that police vehicles number D-0006 and D-0003, were today continuously ferrying family members and guests of police officers in Aberdeen Bazaar area.
These Vehicles were seen sometimes infront of garment shops and sometimes infront of tourists-gift shops middle point. Though this misuse of government vehicles will be obviously justified by officers, as it is always done, but the how Police Department will justify violation of road safety norms, that too during much hyped ‘Road Safety Week’.
Today at around 11.00 am, one of these vehicles was parked openly infront of Janta Cloth Store, Aberdeen Bazaar, blocking normal flow of traffic. Aberdeen Bazaar area is the busiest road of Port Blair city and parking of vehicles on the road is not permitted by the Police Department. Had this been a vehicle of common man the Police Jawans would have imposed heavy challan on the driver.
However, in this case, as it is seen is the photograph taken by Andaman Sheekha, a Traffic Jawan crossed the vehicle without even noticing it. Are traffic rules are different for General Public and Police Officers? Same kind of dangerous parking was seen infornt of Gift Shops of Middle Point (Opposite to State Library).
No doubt that Traffic Jawans and staffs of entire Traffic Unit have been doing wonderful job by slogging almost 24 hours a day but if such wrong examples are set by top officers how the traffic unit will manage the show and impose rules of common man?
Hopefully this time Police Department will set an example by imposing challan on these two vehicles and sending a press release regarding to tell people that how serious the department is towards road safety. About misuse of the vehicles by non-police people for shopping, people of A & N Islands expect no action as misuse of government vehicles for domestic works by officers has become a tradition in A & N Islands. In any case ‘Happy Road Safety Week’.
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