<p>“The MEUs are the need of the hour for a city like Bangalore, where there is a lot of traffic congestion and accidents. Things will not improve unless we create awareness among the youth about safe driving and importance of traffic norms,” said City Commissioner of Police Shankar Bidari.<br /><br />He was addressing police officers during the silver jubilee celebrations of Bangalore City Police Traffic Warden Organisation at the City Armed Reserve (CAR) Parade Grounds on Mysore Road. <br /><br />“The expertise of the traffic police and the education on road safety given to school children has resulted in reduction in road accidents. However, the drive should be taken forward. Hence, the City police have decided to set up MEUs, each of which will be headed by a sub-inspector and comprise a head constable and a constable. The objective of MEUs is to equip school and college students with better road safety knowledge,” Bidari said.<br /><br />The Bangalore police have become a role model in traffic education and management in the country. Deaths in road accidents have increased in all the metropolitan cities, but the percentage of accident-related deaths on Bangalore’s roads has come down by 10 over the last three years, he said.<br /><br />The government has allotted Rs five crore for a traffic training institute at Thanisandra and traffic management centre at Shivajinagar. The City police are the pioneers in the country in imparting traffic monitoring training. The City will become a centre to train traffic police of other states, once the traffic training unit at Thanisandra becomes operational, the Commissioner said.<br /><br />He said the city earlier had 500 traffic wardens and the number had to be increased to 1,000 in the coming days. The Centre had chosen the Bangalore police for an award for roping in the latest technology in traffic management.</p>
<p>“The MEUs are the need of the hour for a city like Bangalore, where there is a lot of traffic congestion and accidents. Things will not improve unless we create awareness among the youth about safe driving and importance of traffic norms,” said City Commissioner of Police Shankar Bidari.<br /><br />He was addressing police officers during the silver jubilee celebrations of Bangalore City Police Traffic Warden Organisation at the City Armed Reserve (CAR) Parade Grounds on Mysore Road. <br /><br />“The expertise of the traffic police and the education on road safety given to school children has resulted in reduction in road accidents. However, the drive should be taken forward. Hence, the City police have decided to set up MEUs, each of which will be headed by a sub-inspector and comprise a head constable and a constable. The objective of MEUs is to equip school and college students with better road safety knowledge,” Bidari said.<br /><br />The Bangalore police have become a role model in traffic education and management in the country. Deaths in road accidents have increased in all the metropolitan cities, but the percentage of accident-related deaths on Bangalore’s roads has come down by 10 over the last three years, he said.<br /><br />The government has allotted Rs five crore for a traffic training institute at Thanisandra and traffic management centre at Shivajinagar. The City police are the pioneers in the country in imparting traffic monitoring training. The City will become a centre to train traffic police of other states, once the traffic training unit at Thanisandra becomes operational, the Commissioner said.<br /><br />He said the city earlier had 500 traffic wardens and the number had to be increased to 1,000 in the coming days. The Centre had chosen the Bangalore police for an award for roping in the latest technology in traffic management.</p>
