RAWALPINDI: City Traffic Police (CTP) on Thursday launched grand anti-encroachment operation against illegal car/motorcycle parking and encroachments in Raja Bazaar and its adjoining areas, informed a spokesman.
The CTP have picked up some 51 motorcycles and cars through lifters and issued fine tickets to the owners, he said.
He informed several other encroachments including tables, stalls, hand push carts and others goods were also removed by the traffic police for the smooth flow of traffic.
The anti-encroachment operation was launched on directives of Chief Traffic Officer (CTO) Rai Mazhar Iqbal, he said.
The Chief Traffic Officer, while taking strict action on complaints about traffic jam in Raja Bazaar and its adjoining areas, have constituted a special squad tasking it to remove all the encroachments from the roads and facilitate the smooth flow of traffic, he added.
He said the special squad comprised DSP Traffic City Circle Zabi ul Hassan and Incharge Traffic City Sector along with lifter staff carried out anti-encroachment operation in Raja Bazaar, City Saddar Road, Gunjmandi Road, Iqbal Road, Bohar Bazaar, Bara Bazaar and Imperial Market.
The DSP on the occasion said an operation is being conducted in this regard in Raja Bazaar and its adjoining areas to remove the encroachments to ease the traffic flow.
He said the special squad of traffic police has also been taking strict action against the illegal parking lots and no parking zones.
He said the utmost effort of traffic police is to facilitate the road users by cleaning roads from encroachments.