30,000 Traffic Violations Recorded in Two Weeks

The Traffic and Operations Sector, under direct instructions from Sector Commander Brigadier General Ahmed Al-Azmi, and with field supervision from Director General of the General Directorate of Traffic Brigadier General Rashid Al-Hajeri and Director General of the General Directorate of Emergency Police Brigadier General Hamlan Al-Hamlan, along with his assistant, Colonel Sabah Al-Yousef, continued implementing security and traffic campaigns. These campaigns aimed to regulate traffic and security conditions on external and internal roads across all governorates.

The security campaigns carried out by the General Directorate of Traffic throughout last week resulted in issuing 30,326 traffic violations, detaining 37 reckless drivers, and referring 601 vehicles and 25 motorcycles to the impound lot, as well as referring nine juveniles to the Juvenile Court after they were caught driving without valid licenses.

Colonel Fahad Al-Eisa, Director of Traffic Awareness at the General Directorate of Traffic, stated in a press briefing that patrols from the traffic management departments in the six governorates, in addition to the traffic operations department patrols and the traffic criminal investigation department patrols, issued 30,326 various traffic violations. They also detained nine juveniles driving without valid licenses, along with 601 vehicles and 25 motorcycles.

Al-Eisa added that the General Directorate of Traffic patrols handled 3,280 diverse traffic reports during the past week, including 1,615 collision accidents and 201 collision accidents involving injuries.

He noted that General Directorate of Traffic patrol officers referred 35 wanted individuals to authorities, with their security charges ranging from absconding to arrest warrants. He further pointed out that traffic patrol officers also detained 31 expatriates on charges of expired residency permits.

He highlighted that traffic officers, during the security campaigns, seized 15 vehicles wanted by security and judicial authorities, in addition to detaining one individual in an abnormal condition, who was referred to the General Directorate of Combating Narcotics.

He clarified that patrols of the General Directorate of Emergency Police also conducted several field security campaigns and security deployments across various governorates, resulting in the detention of 273 wanted individuals, with their security charges ranging from criminal arrest warrants to absconding, as well as the detention of 153 individuals on charges of expired residency permits.

Al-Eisa noted that Emergency Police patrol officers issued 1,189 various traffic violations during the security campaigns, referred three traffic-violating vehicles to the General Directorate of Traffic’s impound lot, and handled 90 traffic accidents. They also seized four vehicles for committing serious violations. He added that Emergency Police patrols provided assistance in 749 cases.

He explained that Emergency Police patrols conducted 1,994 security operations during the past week, which varied between detaining wanted individuals, providing humanitarian aid to emergency cases, and handling traffic accidents.

Al-Eisa stated that Emergency Police patrol officers, through security deployments, managed to detain 23 cases of drug or intoxicant consumption, noting that the General Directorate of Emergency Police referred all detainees to the General Directorate of Combating Narcotics.

He clarified that Emergency Police patrol officers seized 18 vehicles wanted by security and judicial authorities, in addition to detaining 98 individuals lacking identification documents, and recorded 361 identity verification cases.