Pune’s Traffic Gets a Tech Upgrade: Citizens Lead the Charge with 'PTP Traffic Cop App'

As a pioneering initiative to tackle chronic traffic snarls and offenses, Pune Police has launched the 'PTP Traffic Cop App,' which activates citizens as active stakeholders in policing road safety. The initiative, spearheaded by Maharashtra Deputy Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and Pune Police Commissioner Amitesh Kumar, is ushering in a new era of citizen-participatory traffic policing in the city.

 

The app allows law-abiding citizens to report as many traffic violations and road hazards as they please. They can report in real-time by sending photos or video recordings directly from their phones. They can only report, however, if they are law-abiding citizens with no outstanding challans, so law-abiding citizens are in charge.

 

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Ajit Pawar, Deputy CM, requested the citizens of Pune to download the app and become "Sujan Nagrik"—active citizens who would serve as traffic police's eyes and ears. With over 100 traffic deaths occurring annually in Pune, the authorities are looking forward to this online initiative to make a significant difference in traffic discipline and safety on city roads.

 

This move does not just introduce transparency but also the sense of shared responsibility. All such reports thus authenticated will be addressed at once, and the identity of citizens reporting such violation shall be kept confidential.

— Manoj Patil, Additional Commissioner of Police (East) 

 

Source: My Pune Pulse, Free Press Journal, Punekar News