Jammu: In a stern warning to stopping outside state vehicles on the name of checking, Jammu and Kashmir Traffic Police on Wednesday issued stickers to vehicles at the State’s entry point.
The vehicles shall not be stopped for checking thereafter except for exceptional conditions, the traffic police said. An Internal Vigilance Group, headed by Staff Officer to IGP Traffic J&K has been constituted to ensure compliance of these guidelines and eliminate chances of undue harassment, malpractices or wrongdoings, he said.
“Vehicles so checked at Traffic Check Post (TCP) Lakhanpur (in Kathua district) and having been issued a sticker shall not be stopped for checking thereafter anywhere in the State except under exceptions,” the guidelines issued by Traffic Headquarters said.
As per the guidelines all the inter-state vehicles (passenger and load carriers) including tourist vehicles, coming from outside the State will be checked, one time, at TCP Lakhanpur by a team of traffic police officers, to be headed by an officer not less than an Inspector (DTI), who will thereafter issue a special sticker to the vehicle checked which will be pasted on the windscreen of the vehicle.
It further reads that other vehicles within the State can be checked anywhere by a team and group of traffic police officers to be headed by an officer of the rank of Inspector of Traffic Police (DTI) and above.
All challan and enforcement work must be done in a group in full public view at appropriate place, it said, adding that invariably the challaning officers will ensure videography or photography of the enforcement work to ensure transparency.
Authorised traffic officer can stop and challan any vehicle if a vehicle is being driven dangerously or in a negligent manner or if in such a manner which can cause imminent danger to the passengers or passers-by, it said.
Besides, visible overloading, roof topping, hanging of passengers, protruding; in case of drunken driving, use of mobile phone while driving, not wearing seat belt, obstructing free flow of traffic, triple riding on two-wheelers; not wearing crash helmet, plying vehicle without registration number, red light jumping, use of tinted glasses, black films, wrong parking, using pressure, shrill horn, without uniform, or any other visible offence, it said.
The Superintendents of Police and Deputy Superintendents of Police Traffic, will personally ensure strict compliance of these instructions, it said.