ঢাকাবুধবার , ২৪ জুন ২০২৬
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP) jointly organized day-long training for traffic police officers on road safety with focus on speed management in a hotel Dhaka that titled ‘speed as a Risk Factor’. This training organized under the Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative for Global Road Safety (BIGRS) program to enhance the capacity of police officers in implementing the speed limit guidelines in Dhaka and ensuring road safety.
The training was inaugurated by the Additional Police Commissioner (Traffic) of DMP, Md. Anisur Rahman. He called on traffic police to remain active in enforcing traffic laws and speed limit guidelines, as well as ensuring that the left lane of the road remains operational, stopping wrong-way driving, and preventing vehicles from stopping outside designated areas.
To improve Dhaka’s traffic system, measures will soon be taken to ban battery-run rickshaws from major roads, and vehicles that are over 20 years old and unfit, along with stopping random roadside parking and introduce a GPS system in vehicles. He hopes that these steps will reduce both traffic congestion and road crashes on the roads.
He urged drivers to follow traffic laws and speed limits, to drive in the left lane, and to avoid stopping vehicles randomly. He further stated that ensuring road safety in the city is possible if drivers, vehicle owners, and all road users cooperate.
The Joint Police Commissioner of DMP (Traffic–Dhaka North), Mr. A S M Shamsur Rahman Bhuiyan, said that under BIGRS, with the support of the Global Road Safety Partnership, DMP is going to launch pilot initiatives on road safety on three roads within Dhaka North City Corporation: Airport Road, 300 Feet Road, and Lake Road. Along with controlling speed limits, other road safety measures will also be regularly monitored in these areas.
Md. Abdul Wadud described the BIGRS and its partners’ activities in Dhaka city. He said that to reduce fatalities and injuries caused by road crashes, implementation of Motor-Vehicle Speed Limit Guideline 2024 should be emphasized. Full implementation of this guideline requires effective coordination among the relevant stakeholders, road crashes data collection to find the black spots, improved road infrastructure, comprehensive mass media campaign and awareness program to aware road users, and effective law enforcement.
The event was chaired by BIGRS Coordinator and Additional Secretary (Retd.) Md. Abdul Wadud. Md. Anisur Rahman, Additional Police Commissioner (Traffic), DMP was chief guest. A S M Shamsur Rahman Bhuiyan, Joint Police Commissioner (Traffic-Dhaka North) and Mina Mahmuda, Deputy Police Commissioner (Traffic – Admin, Planning and Research) DMP were special guest. Mr. Peter Jones, Senior Road Policing Advisors of GRSP was present.
GRSP Senior Road Policing Advisor Peter Jones conducted the sessions, discussing topics such as, role of law enforcement in preventing road crashes, role of speed in crash occurrences, the importance of speed management, speed control technologies and strategies, and safe management of roadside checkpoints. They also presented audiovisual materials, graphs, and research data illustrating the risks associated with high speeds.
A total of 30 police officers attended—including Traffic Sergeants, Sub-Inspectors, Inspectors, and Assistant/Deputy Police Commissioners—from various units of DMP and 5-engineers and urban planners from DNCC participated in the training.
The training was coordinated by BIGRS-Dhaka Enforcement Coordinator Golam Hossain. Among others, Eng. Khondoker Mahbub Alam, Additional Chief Engineer of DNCC, Aminul Islam Sujon, Technical Advisor of Vital Strategies; Farzana Islam Toma, Consultant of the World Resources Institute (WRI); Eng. Rezaur Rahman, Transport Coordinator of BIGRS; and Dr. Tanvir Ibn Ali, Surveillance Coordinator of BIGRS, Ms Tania Sultana, Additional Deputy Police Commissioner (Tejgoan), were present at the event.
