Commissioner of Police (CP), Dimapur, Rothihu Tetseo, has appealed to residents of the town to obey rules laid down by law enforcing agencies and traffic personnel to avoid accidents.
Speaking to Nagaland Post at his office here on Tuesday, the CP lamented that even if thousands of traffic personnel were deployed to control traffic, road mishaps would be inevitable if residents did not cooperate and that there was no use of deploying heavy manpower. Referring to recent accidents in and around the town and highway area, he explained that use of roads even before their completion due to non-availability of alternate routes was one of the major reasons. He said heavy construction materials and machineries lying on the roads, which also lacked proper signage indicating intersections or speed breakers set up by the constructing companies only added to the problem.
He, however, stressed that if citizens maintained the maximum speed of 40 km/hr, accidents could be easily averted. Meanwhile, referring to putting up of closed circuit television (CCTV) in City Tower area, Tetseo said a proposal in this regard has been sent to the State government.
As CCTVs help in police investigations, he appealed to all business establishments to install them, which would enable the police to gather video evidences, if required in case of any accident or robbery etc. He suggested that trade licence issuing authorities should also set a pre-condition that shop owners would not get their licences unless they installed CCTVs. He said, if this was done, crime rates would decrease a lot.
Referring to DC office junction, the CP said a survey would be conducted soon to check if any improvements could be made.