Officials’ relatives misusing stickers of police, other institutions: DMP

Relatives of officials working with different institutions including the police force are illegally using stickers of those institutions on their vehicles for undue privileges on city streets, a traffic police official said today.

“It is seen that relatives of police officials are going around with police stickers on their vehicles. This is happening with officials working with other institutions too,” SM Mehedi Hasan, joint commissioner (Traffic South) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, told a press briefing at DMP media centre today.

In some cases, the police officials found that the sticker-bearers have no connection with the said officials, he said.

During drives since April 12, the traffic divisions have so far taken legal action against 363 vehicles for carrying unauthorised stickers.

Of them, 40 vehicles were fined in Ramna Division, 164 vehicles in Motijheel, nine in Lalbagh, 44 in Wari, 34 in Tejgaon, 15 in Gulshan and Uttara each and 42 in Mirpur division, according to statistics of DMP’s traffic wing.

Replying to a query, Mehedi Hassan said they were writing to the institutions named on the stickers, listing the details of sticker bearers and their said connections with officials of the institutions.

Police are cracking down on the misuse of stickers as there is a scope for people to evade detection after committing crimes using such vehicles, which are not stopped as often by police at checkpoints.

The traffic police officials asked all to refrain from using such illegal stickers.

The traffic divisions also fined 461 unfit vehicles and impounded 2,350 other illegal vehicles since April 12.

The police officials said traffic police personnel are performing their duties with professionalism and dedication amid scorching heat.

Traffic police are carrying out drives against illegal battery-run rickshaw across the city, he said replying to another query.