POLİCE AND TRAFFİC Research Papers (original) (raw)

Delhi being one of the most polluted cities in the world, has serious impacts on health of its residents. Delhi traffic police, being more exposed to this pollution also receives the worst impact. And the rigorous conditions under which they perform their duty make it even greater. This paper examines the serious health issues pertaining to Delhi traffic police. It focuses on less explored areas like bone health, hygiene, food and shelter.

Traffic policing is about changing driver behaviour through guiding, enforcing and promoting safe road use within the road transport system. Typically, when we think of traffic policing, we think of enforcement alone : the detection, the ticketing, and the penalties. But traffic policing has traditionally been much more than that, partly as a consequence of not having technologies and methods to effectively enforce illegal driver behaviour. Prior to the 1980s and 1990s, interventions with erring drivers were mostly unplanned and arose from observations of an illegal act. Police intervened in person, which allowed for discussion about the illegal behaviour, its causes and consequences, and corrective actions to avoid re-offending. Since then, the availability of enforcement technologies and procedures targeting drink driving, drug driving and speed detection have seen a predominant focus on detection and punishment of drivers on a community-wide basis. As a consequence, traffic polic...

- by Ian Faulks
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- Road safety, Law Enforcement, Case Study, International Comparison

Industrialization and digitalization have transformed human behavior into complex and fast. Road users have exponentially increased during recent years, especially on the roads of Islamabad. The tasks such as maintaining order and discipline among road users having diverse backgrounds and to deal sudden events, deviant actions, and injuries associated with traffic accidents are very challenging for Islamabad Traffic Police. Some organizational and individual factors along with job commitment may be source of job burnout among the employees of ITP. The current study was carried out to find association between organizational and individual factors (leading antecedents) with burnout among traffic police officials of Islamabad city. Primary data was collected through survey method by using standardized self-report Burnout Questionnaires. A non-probability convenient sampling technique was applied and total 60 subjects up to inspector rank from Islamabad Traffic Police were selected as sample. The obtained data was processed and analyzed through SPSS software and Pearson co-relational analysis technique was also used. The present study analyzed leading antecedents including job demands & job resources, work overload, role conflict & role ambiguity, lack of autonomy & organizational policies, locus of control and work-family conflict with burnout. A positive relationship of leading antecedents with burnout was established. However, a significant correlation was found between role conflict & role ambiguity, lack of autonomy & organizational policies and locus of control with burnout. But statistically insignificant relationship was found between job demand & job resources, work overload and work family conflict with burnout. The findings of the present study cannot be generalized to all traffic police officials of Pakistan. A comparative study with traffic police wardens of Rawalpindi city may be conducted to get broader results.