PAKISTAN

Lady wardens to manage Lahore city traffic

LAHORE: The City Traffic Police (CTP) Lahore on Thursday restarted its first seven-member lady traffic warden motorcycle-patrolling batch to monitor traffic issues and maintain traffic flow on major roads of the city.


Chief Traffic Officer (CTO) Sohail Chaudhry inaugurated the ceremony at Liberty Market’s parking lot, where lady traffic wardens started patrolling after two months’ training.

The headquarters SP, senior traffic officers, officials and a number of citizens were also present on this occasion.

The first batch of lady traffic wardens started patrolling from the Liberty area to Fawara Chowk on Gulberg’s Main Boulevard, and then returned to Liberty Market. Senior traffic officers, officials and others were also with them. 


A number of citizens who stood on both sides of the road observed the traffic troop along with lady traffic wardens on 250cc heavy bikes.

The CTO said that lady traffic wardens completed their two-month training under the supervision of qualified traffic officers. Sikh traffic warden Gulab Singh trained them driving heavy bikes.

He said that experts from Atlas Honda also provided them complete mechanical training. He added that initially these lady traffic wardens would patrol on specified city roads where they would also perform their duties to maintain the traffic flow in any emergency situation.