By Uzma Zafar
ISLAMABAD: Islamabad Traffic Police (ITP) is making all out efforts to lessen the road accidents ratio by educating road users and ensuring strict implementation of traffic rules on roads.
This was stated by Inspector Traffic Rana Ishtiaq Ahmed while addressing in the concluding ceremony of one day road safety education workshop organized by ITP Road Safety Education Wing at Islamabad Model School G-7/4 on Wednesday. Approximately 200 students and staff members participated in the workshop. Administration appreciated the efforts of ITP in maintaining traffic discipline in the Capital city. The special message of SSP (Traffic) Mazhar Iqbal was also quoted on the occasion that valuable lives of citizen can be saved by obeying traffic rules.
Inspector Traffic Rana Ishtiaq Ahmed and his team also revealed that the aim of holding such programs is to create traffic sense and sense of responsibility among the students and citizens, advising them to avoid underage driving, yielding right of ways on junctions and roundabouts and pedestrians while crossing roads. Students in the workshop were also urged to avoid using mobile phones while driving, fastening seat belts for safety in case of road crash. He further added that a minor negligence of a driver can cause severe road accident and endanger the lives of many road users. ITP is striving hard to provide safer journey to road users and utilizing all available resources. At the end, gifts were distributed among the participants by the team. The Inspector Traffic said that ITP had become a model of excellence through its service-oriented policies and endeavoring to come up to the expectations of the general public by ensuring traffic discipline in the city.
Principal, Islamabad Model School G-7/4 Ms Rabia Qayyum and Other Senior Staff Teacher of School appreciated the efforts of ITP for creating safer road environment in the Capital City.
