MP Police: Indore: इंदौर में खुलेंगे 10 नए ट्रैफिक थानें... posts for four DSPs and one ASP have been demanded..

INDORE: To avoid traffic snarls and minimise risk of road accidents, the city police has asked for 10 more traffic police stations in addition to the existing two in the city. The demand is pending before the state government. Senior Superintendent of Police A Sai Manohar said that additional 10 traffic police stations were essential to streamline the city traffic. "If the department gets nod, the two existing traffic police stations will be transformed into a control room to supervise the other traffic police stations," he added.

Eight City Superintendents of Police will have one traffic police station each under their control. There will be separate traffic police station for Mhow and rural areas, said the SSP. All these traffic police stations will work as separate units. Keeping in mind the major accidents that have taken place on the highways recently, a special traffic police station for highways would also be established, said the SSP. He said that fatalities were high on highways due to reckless and drunken driving. The highway traffic police will do research and find out special accident zones on highways. Action will be taken against drunken drivers, he informed. According to the new proposal, around 75 to 138 cops would be deployed at every traffic police station, said the SSP, adding that posts for four DSPs and one ASP have been demanded. At present, there are only two DSPs in traffic department.