(Zaman Al Wasl)- Aleppo Free Police opened lately several traffic centers to organize traffic and spread discipline and driving concepts to decrease traffic accidents and its dangers.
The centers which were launched last March are distributed between Aleppo city, Dar Izzet, al-Atarib, Orm al-Kubra, and Izaz in efforts to enforce social police slogan.
Manger of media office in Aleppo police Malek Abdul Hadi told Zaman al-Wasl, “there is a plan to start other centers”, pointing out these centers came in response to local councils’ requests in towns and cities which suffer traffic jam in liberated areas. 275 record were documented with traffic accidents in Aleppo province since January 2016 until September 2016 and 25 deaths were documented mostly men and 5 children.
He added that launching these centers secures employment opportunities for defected regime personnel especially those who were specialized with experience in this field in addition to serving people, raising awareness, and guide them to commit to traffic guidelines.
The mission of these centers are manifested in “arresting drivers or cars and motorcycles and tracking down wanted via traffic points on roads and guide the population through dangerous roads those observed by warplanes, snipers as well as roads on which there are military operations to make sure they stay safe.”
Each center is headed by an officer subordinate to Free police and issue orders on daily basis for patrols. The patrols start their work in two or 3 groups depending on needs. There are shifts of personnel every 8 hours. The patrol consists of 4 personnel. In the traffic point, there is a police to organize traffic and drivers of 4 motorcycles who tour the main roads in case or urgency or needs.
He added that most traffic accidents in Aleppo is a result of clash between cars and motorcycles adding that 15 motorcycles clashed with cars. The reasons of the accidents are inattentiveness, high speed and not wearing helmets.
Abdul Hadi pointed out to many challenges that face traffic centers including warplanes bombings and bad roads in addition to absence of organizational discipline for cars’ banners and driving license.
Regarding traffic tickets and how much they enforce the law, he said that there is now ongoing coordination with local councils regarding this issue.
He added that the traffic centers lack a regime of traffic ticketing since the disciplinary actions are taken after accidents when injured are rescued and vehicles moved like all traffic regimes in the world. He indicated that “the patrols have traffic signaling pieces placed in accidents area to guide rest of drivers to slow down to prevent other accidents”.
He pointed out the work of the patrol personnel manifested in drawing map of the accident immediately after it happens and measuring breaks to detect responsibility. They also use experts to estimate material damage for vehicles and when there is an injury a coroner writes a report that gets attached to the record.
He continued saying, “in case of death, medical examination and legal committee are summoned as well as police record writer to present the case to the court of specialty.”
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