Dubai - The campaign is the fourth campaign by the MoI in the last few years and will last for three months.
Published: Sat 1 Sep 2018, 8:45 PM
Updated: Sat 1 Sep 2018, 10:57 PM
With the beginning of the new academic year, the Ministry of Interior (MoI) in collaboration with Federal Traffic Council has launched a traffic awareness campaign titled 'Return to School' to help the student community comply with traffic rules.
The campaign, which will begin today, is the fourth campaign by the MoI in the last few years and will last for three months.
Major-General Mohammed Saif Al Zafin, Assistant Commander-in-Chief of Dubai Police Operations, Chairman of the Federal Traffic Council, said in a press conference held at the Dubai Police Officers' Club that this campaign is an embodiment of the Ministry of Interior's strategy emanating from the Federal Government Strategy to achieve the highest levels of traffic safety for all public and private school students. He added that the strategic plan for the traffic sector in the Ministry of Interior also aims to control the roads, to enhance traffic safety and reduce traffic accidents and run-over accidents .
He added that school students in different age groups and stages of education are considered a component of human development in the country, who has to be protected from potential dangers.
The campaign for accident-free roads comprises events, lectures and other programmes which utilises audio-video visuals, social media, forums and dialogue sites, distribution of awareness leaflets as well radio programmes which will host traffic specialists, to respond to any inquiries by the public on the campaign and the values and culture of traffic.
Major-General Al Zafin urged parents not to allow their children to sit in the front seats and advised motorists to stop away from the school gates to avoid congestion and traffic accidents. He also called on all drivers and other road users to cooperate with police and traffic police, abide by traffic rules and comply with road rules to ensure the safety of our children. Students at the beginning of the school year, reducing traffic accidents and avoiding traffic jams; and their negative effects.
He said that last year's statistics on violations of the Traffic and Safety Act showed issuance of 2,635 tickets for allowing children under the age of 10 or less than 145cm to sit in the front seats of the vehicle; 87 violations of drivers of school bus transport vehicle not opening stop sign; 190 tickets for driving dangerously in residential areas and around educational institutions and hospitals in a way that would endanger the lives of others and 30,472 traffic violations of not giving priority to pedestrians to cross in the designated areas.
The press conference was attended by Brigadier General Hussein Ahmed Al Harthy, Deputy Chairman of the Federal Traffic Council, and members of the Federal Traffic Board Directors of traffic departments and patrols in the state.
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