In Lahore over seventy wardens of City Traffic Police representing all zones and circles had gathered at a beautiful hall for a day long training on Road Safety by Amjad Faizi of Institute of Safety & Human Factors - Karachi through the courtesy of Indus Motors Ltd. Venue was decorated with colorful safety awareness messages through banners of Toyota and "Road Safety" campaign of Indus Motors.
Proceedings of first session began with recitation of verses from Holy Quran, Singing of National Anthem and a welcome address by City Traffic Officer. Shakil Mirza in his address emphasized the need of training, advised participants to make best use of this training and learn these techniques & details for performing better. Commander Asif Khawaja as organizer of this activity thanked Chief Guest and presented details about training programme.
First lecture by Amjad Faizi covered all aspects of road sense and through videos and slides explained this vital factor to all participants emphasizing that road safety emerges from road sense and not vice versa. Statistics of roads and accidents of Pakistan with their comparison to region & world were also presented for explaining to wardens their role in reducing the same to save lives.
Lectures on public dealing, driving techniques, right of way and testing for licensing were delivered in the following sessions and components of each were explained in detail through demonstrations and examples. Inter active discussions gave participants an opportunity to clarify their doubts and understand the logics and "why" of these subjects to perform better.
Closing session guests included few officers from NH&MP, Citizen of Lahore, reps from Indus Motors and DIGs Sarmad and Ghalib A Bandesha of Police. Four participants expressed their views on this day long activity and expressed their desire of more of such courses on regular basis. DIG Sarmad shared his ongoing works towards police training while DIG Ghalib as first head of CTP explained his vision and step proposed to make this force the best of all in the province. Usman Qazi of Indus Motors briefed the participants about importance given by his company to road safety and their works in line with their motto of "Concern Beyond Cars".
CTO Lahore thanked Indus Motors for their support, Asif Khawaja & Amjad Faizi and his team for the training and guests for participating in the event. He and the distinguished Guests then distributed certificates to the participants and shields to organisers and sponsors. Activity was well covered by electronic and print media especially City 42 TV Channel and FM 88.8 of CTP.
As a follow up of this activity meeting was held with the board of RASTA to discuss ways of promoting Road Sense awareness amongst road users representing all walks of life.
Second activity at Lahore was two (2) hour long training session with the RJs of FM 88.8 for educating them on ways to promote road sense during their programmes.
Proceedings of first session began with recitation of verses from Holy Quran, Singing of National Anthem and a welcome address by City Traffic Officer. Shakil Mirza in his address emphasized the need of training, advised participants to make best use of this training and learn these techniques & details for performing better. Commander Asif Khawaja as organizer of this activity thanked Chief Guest and presented details about training programme.
First lecture by Amjad Faizi covered all aspects of road sense and through videos and slides explained this vital factor to all participants emphasizing that road safety emerges from road sense and not vice versa. Statistics of roads and accidents of Pakistan with their comparison to region & world were also presented for explaining to wardens their role in reducing the same to save lives.
Lectures on public dealing, driving techniques, right of way and testing for licensing were delivered in the following sessions and components of each were explained in detail through demonstrations and examples. Inter active discussions gave participants an opportunity to clarify their doubts and understand the logics and "why" of these subjects to perform better.
Closing session guests included few officers from NH&MP, Citizen of Lahore, reps from Indus Motors and DIGs Sarmad and Ghalib A Bandesha of Police. Four participants expressed their views on this day long activity and expressed their desire of more of such courses on regular basis. DIG Sarmad shared his ongoing works towards police training while DIG Ghalib as first head of CTP explained his vision and step proposed to make this force the best of all in the province. Usman Qazi of Indus Motors briefed the participants about importance given by his company to road safety and their works in line with their motto of "Concern Beyond Cars".
CTO Lahore thanked Indus Motors for their support, Asif Khawaja & Amjad Faizi and his team for the training and guests for participating in the event. He and the distinguished Guests then distributed certificates to the participants and shields to organisers and sponsors. Activity was well covered by electronic and print media especially City 42 TV Channel and FM 88.8 of CTP.
As a follow up of this activity meeting was held with the board of RASTA to discuss ways of promoting Road Sense awareness amongst road users representing all walks of life.
Second activity at Lahore was two (2) hour long training session with the RJs of FM 88.8 for educating them on ways to promote road sense during their programmes.
Meeting with the DIG Central of NH&MP at the office of Commandant of Driving Training School led to the third (3) activity of half day training workshop with the instructors of the school at their Sheikhpura Complex on M- 2. Road sense awareness and inclusion of the same in all courses being conducted by them was the main theme of this activity
These activities were just the beginning of promoting road sense awareness at Lahore and many more such activities are expected in near future.
-Staff Correspondent
These activities were just the beginning of promoting road sense awareness at Lahore and many more such activities are expected in near future.
-Staff Correspondent
