Bracing to welcome the new academic year

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Saturday, August 30th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

Colonel Khamis Ishaq Mohammed, Deputy Director of the Abu Dhabi Police Traffic and Patrols Directorate announced that the directorate has deployed more than 140 traffic patrols at the various intersections and on the internal and external roads in different areas of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. “The directorate has completed its preparations for the new academic year 2014-2015,” explained Colonel Mohammed.

Adding further, he stressed the directorate’s keenness to ensure students' safety and smooth traffic flow across Abu Dhabi, Al Ain and the Western Region, in pursuance of the “Their Safety is Our Concern” campaign, launched today by the Ministry of Interior.

“The traffic patrols will monitor traffic at the various intersections and roundabouts, on both internal and external roads and near schools in the various areas and cities in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. They will ensure compliance with traffic law and regulations, and protect students and road users from road accidents, while commuting to and from schools,” indicated Colonel Mohammed. He also highlighted the efforts of the “Tathqeef” education patrols that contribute to maintain students’ safety and reduce the causes of traffic accidents and their resulting deaths and serious injuries.

Colonel Mohammed urged motorists and parents to abide by traffic laws to ensure safety for their children and other road users, to observe legal speed limits and reduce speed near schools. He also advised them to refrain from parking their vehicles randomly near schools, so as to ensure smooth traffic flow and not to cause traffic jams.

On the same note, he called on school bus drivers to abide by traffic laws, observe legal speed limits; as well as to avoid taking off before making sure that all students have boarded or exited the bus; avoid using the mobile phone while driving; and to wear the seat belt.

Moreover, he noted that the Abu Dhabi Police Traffic and Patrols Directorate organize annual awareness-raising traffic events and programs that coincide with the beginning of the new academic year. These events and programs target school students of different age groups.  “These initiatives carried out in collaboration with the Abu Dhabi Education Council aim to inculcate a sense of responsibility in our students, and engage them in the efforts  to provide traffic safety for all, as well as to enhance their traffic education culture,” said Colonel Mohammed.

“As part of the safe back to school preparations,  meetings were held with the various heads  of traffic departments and chiefs of sections at the Abu Dhabi Police Traffic and Patrol Directorate to finalize the back to school traffic plan across Abu Dhabi,” highlighted the Deputy Director of the Abu Dhabi Police Traffic and Patrols Directorate.

He added: “Several issues were discussed,  notably the need to intensify the numbers of police patrols and traffic controllers near schools to ensure smooth vehicular traffic especially during those crucial first few days, which witness a high density of traffic.” Furthermore, he praised the cooperation with the Abu Dhabi Education Council in scheduling traffic awareness programs and activities throughout the school year, given their instrumental role in strengthening and boosting traffic education culture among students of different age groups and academic stages.

It is worth mentioning that the Traffic and Patrols Directorate has implemented more than 178 awareness-raising lectures and programs in 2013-2014, in the private and public educational institutions across the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, benefiting 18,932 students. Moreover, 37 traffic awareness programs were organized in that same period, and targeted school bus drivers and supervisors across the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. A total of 1,850 bus drivers and supervisors benefitted from these programs.

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