Pune News : Pune police receives training on road safety
Pune: Pune police officers are receiving road safety training from international experts through the partnership programme between Bloomberg Philanthropies and Pune police.
Former officers from Australia and New Zealand with road policing experience are training 183 cops on traffic management and road safety norms. The training covers effective investigation of road crash scenes and identification of causative factors.
Vijay Kumar Magar, deputy commissioner of police (traffic), said, “We have tied up with Bloomberg Philanthropies to take measures to manage traffic better, carry out in-depth studies of accidental fatalities and other road safety aspects in Pune. Bloomberg Philanthropies is an international organisation working on traffic related issues in more than 26 countries. The foreign team conducted three to four training sessions with our cops.”
The workshops were hosted under the Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative for Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP) and were attended by personnel from Pune, Pimpri-Chinchwad, Pune rural and Highway state police. The aim of the partnership is to manage traffic better and carry out in-depth studies of accidental fatalities and other road safety aspects in Pune.
GRSP is working on traffic-related issues in more than 26 countries. The partnership conducted three to four training sessions with the cops. The accurate investigation and reporting of serious crashes can help identify important information about where, when and why serious crashes occur and assist in identifying road engineering improvements, legislative initiatives and intelligence for the police to enforce road safety measures.
