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Daily Times - Lahore,Pakistan
23 August 2007
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LAHORE: The new traffic wardens are following their predecessors’ footprints, according to complaints the department is receiving. The force had replaced the old traffic police to introduce soft policing, politeness and good behaviour and win the people’s confidence in the police. But many incidents have been reported the wardens’ misconduct with motorists and scuffles with the public.
According to a City Traffic Police Department handout issued in the first week of July, Chief Traffic Officer (CTO) Wasim Ahmad Sial had privately inspected the city’s new force. In light of his inspection, the CTO had sent about 100 traffic wardens to the Chungh Police Training Centre because they had been performing poorly.
Deputy Inspector General (Wardens) Ghalib Bandesha said the capital city police officer (CCPO) was supervising the traffic wardens. The CCPO, Additional Inspector General Malik Iqbal, said the 100 traffic wardens were sent for more training. He said people should appreciate the step because it meant the department was scrutinising itself and was improving. He said most people who were complaining about the wardens were supporters of the old system and wanted to fail the government’s efforts to improve the police. He said such people were registering ‘fake complaints’ to damage the traffic wardens’ repute.
However, not all the complaints could be brushed off as ‘fake’, say sources. One complaint was of a transporter who sent an application to the inspector general and CTO complaining of misconduct of some traffic wardens.
In his application against traffic wardens Athar Aziz, Muhammad Farooq, Waqas Akbar and Adeel, complainant Haji Sirajuddin alleged that the officials had demanded Rs 300 per trolley to allow him to ply tractor trolleys in the city in the morning despite a ban. However, when he refused, they fined him even though he had not committed any traffic violation.
Sirajuddin said that on August 9, Senior Traffic Warden (STW) Aziz and STW Farooq came to his dera near Naqsha Stop on Wahdat Road and told him that they would allow him to ply his trolleys if he paid them Rs 300 per trolley otherwise, they and their juniors would not allow him to move his trolleys and would continuously fine him. He said that when he refused their ‘offer’, STW Aziz left him with threats of ‘strict action’ against him.
Sirajuddin stated in his application that on the next day, STW Aziz seized five of his trolleys and arrested the drivers after registering a case against them under Section 279 of the Pakistan Penal Code (rash driving). He said Wahdat Road, from where the trolleys were seized was a busy one and traffic on it was too slow to allow a tractor to drive rashly. Sirajuddin said the trolleys and drivers were released because of a court order to this effect, but the Muslim Town police again seized another trolley the next day. He said trolleys were again seized on August 11 and August 14. He said all the traffic wardens who seized the trolleys gave challan chits on plain paper with the police station’s stamp.
Another complainant, Naeemur Rehman, a resident of Shah Kamal, wrote in his complaint to the CTO that traffic wardens on Canal Road The Mall Intersection harassed him and his family and stole two of his mobile phones on July 5. He stated that traffic wardens were controlling traffic when he was crossing the bridge. A warden stood in front of his car, started shouting and called his colleagues. He said the wardens abused him and his family and told them to get out of the car. He added that two of the wardens started searching the car. He said that after a thorough search of his car, the wardens let him and his family get back in it. However, he found his two mobile phones missing and when he asked the wardens, they abused and threatened him.
Rehman told Daily Times that he could easily identify the traffic wardens.
In another incident, Ahmad, a rickshaw driver, said a traffic warden had beaten him up in Township. He said the warden had stopped him because his rickshaw was very noisy and demanded his registration copy and licence, which he gave to the official. The warden told him that he would have to seize the rickshaw and take it to the police station because he did not have a challan book. Ahmad said he requested the warden not to seize the rickshaw, but the conversation turned angry. He said the warden started beating him up and was saved by the intervention of passers-by. He said that he had complained to SP Imran Yaqoob and the case was proceeding.
Other such complaints had also been reported with senior traffic police officers about traffic wardens misbehaving, maltreating and blackmailing the public. However, traffic wardens and their seniors say that these complaints were false and intended to defame the department.
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