Story: George Ernest Asare, Kumasi.
THE Ashanti Regional Police Command has embarked on a special exercise to arrest and prosecute drivers who flout road traffic regulations as part of measures to help reduce the carnage on the highways and make travelling more comfortable and enjoyable.
So far 70 drivers have been arrested for committing various road traffic offences and 46 of them prosecuted and convicted to pay a total fine of Gh¢8,380.
According to the Ashanti Regional Police Commander, DCOP Patrick Timbillah , 13 of the offending drivers were cautioned and discharged when they appeared before court while 11 cases were still under investigations.
Briefing The Mirror on the exercise, Mr Timbillah said “it was in line with the recent directives by the Police Administration to check indiscipline on our roads with the view to stemming the recent spate of carnage on our roads”.
He said the special exercise, which was led by the Ashanti Regional Motor Traffic and Transport Unit (MTTU) Police Commander, ASP Abraham Bansah, was also in line with the ongoing operation to bring discipline on the road network of the Ashanti Region.
He commended officials of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) and the National Road Safety Commission (NRSC) in the region for collaborating with the MTTU to make the special exercise successful.
Mr Timbilla gave assurance that with the continuous collaboration of the DVLA and the NRSC, the MTTU would intensify its operations on the highways to ensure that all recalcitrant drivers were brought to book to bring sanity on the highways.
“ The exercise will continue until drivers in the region become disciplined and cannot be arrested under any of the provisions of the Road Traffic Regulations,“ he warned.
He appealed to passengers “to bear with the police in the operations as the exercise is to bring sanity on our roads, which will ultimately benefit passengers and other road users”.
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