NSRA commends Ghana Police for high visibility during Easter festivities
The Ghana Police Service has been praised by the National Road Safety Authority (NRSA) for their “high visibility” on the roads throughout this year’s Easter season and festivities.
The deployment of Police Patrol teams at vantage locations to ensure law and order, according to the NRSA, was extraordinary. More impressive were the traffic control responsibilities across the country’s road networks, particularly along the Accra-Nkawkaw-Kumasi route and the Kwahu townships of Mpreaso, Nkwatia, Atibie, and Abetifi.
During the Easter season, the NRSA and the Ghana Police Service worked together to guarantee better compliance with road traffic legislation and safety requirements on various major roads across the country.
In commendation of the collaborative efforts, the NRSA reckoned that “although the NRSA and the Ghana Police Service are still analyzing the road crash data collected during the just-ended festive period, preliminary findings indicate low cases of crashes and casualties.
Also, the authority “commends the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Dr. George Akuffo Dampare, for his ground-breaking ideas in combatting road traffic crashes through technology and the recently launched Police Action Against Rider Indiscipline (PAARi) and the Public Invincible Eye (PIE) operations which we at the Authority consider laudable strategies and assure the IGP of our full support and cooperation for such initiatives”.
Commenting on the authority’s ongoing campaign programme called “Stay Alive”, NRSA said “the Road Safety Campaign with the Media is increasingly improving road safety awareness and the sustainability of these vigorous enforcement actions by the Police as witnessed during the Easter will add more to ensure mass effect in the fight to clamp down on indiscipline among road users especially acts of excessive speeding, wrongful overtaking, crossing red-lights and abandoning of disabled vehicles on the road, among others.”
