Gujrat Police: Ahmedabad Police: Ahmedabad traffic police on Facebook from today

AHMEDABAD: For all those Facebook aficionados who are trying to bring in some positive changes on city roads, here is a good news: today onwards, the daily live updates will be done by constables of city traffic police from 10 am to 2 pm and 4 pm to 6 pm everyday.

The social networking site users can post complaints about traffic jams, illegal parking in buildings and individual violation cases. The official note was posted on Monday by the administrators that two constables have been appointed to maintain Facebook traffic.

Nilesh Jajadiya, deputy commissioner of police (traffic), told TOI that the efforts have been well appreciated by citizens. "We are getting good response and we want to keep up the spirit. While we have started forwarding major complaints such as non-functional traffic signals and basement encroachments to civic authorities, we will be able to handle individual complaints in a month's time after a linking system with RTO gets functional," he said.

Talking about the system, the traffic police officials said that a database of the complaints will be made along with photographic or video evidences from the site. The database will then be compared with the existing RTO registrations to identify the vehicle owners and address. The challan then can be sent directly to the offender. While the primary testing will take place earlier next month, the officials are hopeful of its implementation soon.

The Facebook message states that three complaints, posted by the users, were forwarded to concerned police inspectors and assistant commissioners of police (traffic). The complaints where the users posted photos of policemen flouting traffic rules will be supervised by deputy commissioner of police. The register is also maintained about the complaints coming in.

The interaction has started on the site as when a user posted a question about whether to keep the vehicle registration book (RC book) with him as his is with a finance company, the administrators said that there are less chances of him getting caught if he is not violating any rules. However, they emphasized that the rider should have an RC book as a requirement. The posts also signified that the users should also mention time and place while posting photos.