Increase in the Number of Minors Involved in Traffic Violations: Police Officials Take These Measures

To prevent minors from using four- and two-wheelers, the city traffic police counselled parents of minors involved in traffic offences simultaneously across all four traffic police stations in the city. The sessions gained significance in the light of the death of two teenagers in a road accident in Padavinangady, on the Airport Road on the night of June 28.

Police officials are booking cases against the parents/owners of vehicles used by minors. Parents of the minors are called to the police stations for counselling and warned against allowing minors ride vehicles. CCTV cameras have been installed at many places in the city, including in Katipalla Krishnapura. The footage from these CCTV cameras are being regularly watched and the parents/owners of vehicle are being booked if minors are found driving vehicles without a helmet and other visible traffic offences.

15 parents/owners of vehicles used by minors, which were involved in traffic offences, attended the counselling. Addressing them, Assistant Commissioner of Police (Traffic) Geetha D. Kulkarni said it is unsafe to allow minors to use vehicles. When a parent expressed difficulty in preventing teenagers from using vehicles, Ms. Kulkarni said parents should not hesitate in approaching the police for help.

Mangalore Traffic South Inspector Ramesh Hanapur said the city traffic police are registering on an average 3,000 cases per day based on photographs of traffic violations taken on the field. An average of 150 cases are being booked daily after watching the footage of surveillance CCTVs, he said.