Dubai Police target zero accident deaths

Dubai Traffic police say they are targeting to reduce the number of serious traffic accidents and deaths caused by such accidents annually to zero by 2020 and have urged the public to join hands with them to achieve the goal.

Cops have urged fellow motorists or the general public to report any traffic violation immediately to the control room on its two dedicated lines.

Lieutenant Ahmed Yaser Amiri, Head of programme at the “We Are All Police” section told 'Emirates24|7' that every complaint would be seriously looked into and repeated offenders could end up being blacklisted.

“No matter who the complaint is registered against even if it means a police car is involved in rash and negligent driving, we would be taking up the issue seriously,” said Amiri.

“It is our aim to reduce all major traffic violations and accidents in Dubai. We want to bring the number down to zero by 2020. We are confident that we will be able to achieve this target. However we will also need public co-operation. It was with this idea of involving the public in policing that Dubai Police Chief Lieutenant General Dahi Khalfan Tamim in 2004 initiated the setting up the section We Are All Police or Kulluna Shurta, in Arabic,” he added.

On an average the section receives about 70 complaints every day against rash and accident prone driving. “The number of calls have however dropped from 17,088 during the first six months of 2010 to 10,879 during the same period this year,” said Amiri.

When asked what action is usually taken against erring motorists, he said, “We follow an elaborate  procedure. An SMS is immediately sent to the person against whom the complaint is registered along with a number to call back. We always give an opportunity for the other person to narrate his explanation,” he said.

“We also crosscheck the complaint with our own system, about the status of his fines and other details,” he added.According to him majority of the complaints are registered against male drivers and are during peak hours.

“At times there are so many calls that our lines get jammed,” said Amiri.

The programme has been developed in house and cops who work in the section are well versed in various languages including Urdu, Chinese, German and Russian apart from Arabic and English.

The two numbers to call for reporting any traffic complaints are: 8004353 and 8007000.

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