JALANDHAR
The Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann has launched the first of its kind Sadak Surakhya Force in the state which will be entrusted with the task of manning 5500 kilometres of crucial roads to save precious lives of people.
The Sadak Surakhya Force has got a fleet of 144 ultra modern vehicles in the first phase to monitor the roads efficiently. These vehicles include 116 Toyota Hilux and 28 Mahindra Scorpio which will be deployed after an interval of every 30 kilometres to monitor the roads. A team of four cops headed by officers not less than the rank of ASI, as patrol in charge, will be there in the vehicle.
Road interceptors will be deployed at every district which will be manned by three cops. In the first phase, 1296 newly recruited cops along with 432 existing Police personnel will be deployed in SSF. The teams will be deployed 24X7 in eight-hour shifts each for which they have been imparted special training at the Police Training Academy in Kapurthala.
These vehicles have been equipped with ultra-modern gadgets like speed guns, tachometers, e-chalan machines, and AI-enabled smart mechanisms to check the violation of traffic rules. They will also have a recovery van along with command-and-control centre-enabled real-time CCTV cameras. Likewise, there will be road crash investigations and mechanical engineers, civil engineers, and IT experts for handling technical assignments.