Staff Reporter :
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia announced the extension of Traffic Week for three days till August 14 which was started on August 5.
“We have extended the period of Traffic Week after getting positive results from the ongoing week-long programme,” he said at a press briefing at the DMP Media Centre on Monto Road on Saturday afternoon.
The DMP witnesses the huge progress of applying traffic laws, he said and “we will continue to apply traffic laws and take action against the traffic violators, regardless of class and person.”
He also said enforcing traffic laws was difficult as the 90 per cent of the peoplein the country violate traffic rules .
Following recent student protests demanding safe roads, DMP Commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia, on August 4, announced the week-long programme to take legal steps against unfit vehicles, drivers without licence and other traffic offenders, including pedestrians.
Since the seventh day of the Traffic Week, police lodged around 1,29,871 cases against different vehicles and took action against 46,723 drivers for traffic rules violation. The law enforcers also fined Tk 4,49,09,223 and seized 3,777 vehicles during the last seven days of the ongoing Traffic Week-2018.
