Little is being done to recruit additional police personnel to keep up with the ever increasing traffic, despite a requisition for the same being filed by police and law and order departments two years ago u00a0 The city traffic police appear to be doing a commendable job, given the fact that the ratio is one traffic cop for every 1,200 vehicles. Now that might sound impossible, but Bangalore is definitely way behind other metros, including Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata and Chennai, for its skewed ratio. At a time when over 1,300 vehicles are being registered in the city on a daily basis, the traffic police department is falling short of personnel to manage the burgeoning traffic on the roads. The Traffic Police department, along with Law and Order department had two years ago, filled in a requisition for more officials to be recruited. <img alt="" src="/imagedata/2011/jun/trafficpolice.jpg" border="5" /> Grossly outnumbered: According to a police census conducted earlier this year, there were about 3,200 traffic police personnel to manage over 3.8 million vehicles. Representation Pic Despite the mounting pressure from all quarters and repeated lapses being reported about the concerned department, the administrative body has done very little to recruit more officials. Recruitment held Speaking to MiD DAY after attending a Police Connect conference in the city, ACP (Traffic), Praveen Sood said, "The process of recruitment has been held back by the administration for certain reasons. We had forwarded a requisition for a certain number of police personnel a long time ago. There is requirement for thousands of police personnel in the city, but recruitment is not taking shape." According to a police census conducted earlier this year, there were about 3,200 traffic police personnel to manage 8 million people and over 3.8 million vehicles. "This effectively means that approximately one traffic policeman is assigned for every 1,200 vehicles. A lesser known fact is that, even after personnel are recruited, they would first have to undergo two years of training, before they can join the force," Sood said. When contacted, DCP Administration, Krishna Bhat debunked the issue saying recruitment is in place. "There was a stay order on recruitment and now that has been vacated," he claimed. Having not fulfilled the requisition placed before the administration cell over two years ago, the situation within the department has gone out of hand. On probing further, Bhat revealed, "Some recruits had not filed documents based on the specified rules and had to be rejected. They had contested the matter in court and the court ruled in their favour. Now over 1,566 people are being recruited." Meanwhile, the police department has made their statement about the lack of resources and personnel very clear. It now remains to be seen if the department will speed up the process to bale them out of the dilemma.

Little is being done to recruit additional police personnel to keep up with the ever increasing traffic, despite a requisition for the same being filed by police and law and order departments two years ago

Bangalore traffic department severely understaffed

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