Traffic Cops to Get A Day-off During Weekends

"The decision has been taken to boost efficiency of the traffic policemen and enable them joy a day with their families and friends" - CV Anand, Additional Commissioner of Police (Traffic)
 

The policemen working in the Hyderabad traffic police can from now on enjoy their weekends with their family members and friends. In what is a new plan being drafted by police officials, cops manning the roads will be able to get a day-off during weekends on rotation basis. The new weekend holidays will be effective from next week and it will be for the first time that such a measure will be initiated for traffic personnel. CV Anand, additional commissioner of police (Traffic) said the holidays will be given to each staff member from the rank of assistant commissioner of police to sub-inspectors. Talking about the drive against drunken driving during weekends, Anand said they would constitute 20 teams to control drunken driving. "When these teams work at night as per the new initiative, the staff will have one-day holiday during the weekends. The decision has been taken to boost professional efficiency and promote high moral values and social ethics, enabling the personnel to enjoy weekly offs with their families. The break will reduce their burden and help them cope with the pressures of work better,'' he explained. GVG Ashok, deputy commissioner of police (Traffic) said each team will have at least seven staff members including home guards and constables and would be headed by either an inspector or SI. As many as 360 traffic police will get an off day during the weekend under the new scheme.

Traffic police strength
Inspectors- 19
Sub-inspectors- 77
Assistant SIs- 13
Head constables- 172
Constables- 846
Home Guards- 1,276
Total- 3,236

By Mouli Mareedu

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