Reportedly the bengaluru traffic police have taken to installing mannequins wearing the traffic police uniforms in a bizarre attempt to curb traffic violations on the roads. Meanwhile pictures show the mannequins wearing the standard traffic cop uniform: high-visibility jackets, white shirt, khaki pants, and steel-toe boots. Apparently Chief of Traffic, ravi Kanthe Gowda, says, “There are lots of people who commit traffic offences when there are no police around to catch them. We put these up so that the people know there is police presence around.”
Furthermore the traffic police have installed around 30 life size traffic police mannequins all over the city on a trial basis, using the assumption that drivers behave better on the road when there is some authority watching over them. Further bengaluru traffic police statistics indicate that the number of fatalities has declined in recent years and the figures for fatal accidents in 2017 was 4,455 and in 2018, it was 4,133.
Moreover as per report what has been noticed is that blatant traffic violations occur all over the city in the absence of the traffic police: signal jumps, cell-phone usage, and not wearing helmets. Perhaps there is also a need for increased traffic monitoring as the number of vehicles on Bengaluru’s roads go up every year.
