Masiaka Police Station gets new District Traffic Officer
Masiaka, Aug. 1(SLENA) – A new batch of traffic police officers has been posted to the Masiaka Police Station in a bid to minimize road accidents and ensure the maintenance of law and order along the main route that links the national capital of Freetown to the countryside.
Inspector Alfred Turay who has been the Head of Traffic Training and Investigations at the Central Police Station in Freetown, is the newly transferred District Traffic Officer (DTO) at the Masiaka Police Station. He succeeded Inspector Kebie Koroma who now proceeds on transfer to Tombo in the Waterloo Rural District.
The new Team which assumed duty on 17th July 2015 would be responsible for traffic control from Guawama crossing to Gberray Bridge on one side and the Masiaka/ Kontha Line axis along the Bo highway on the other. It has a special mandate to focus particular attention on the Mile 38 Police Check Point.
Inspector Turay and his Team which comprised of one Inspector Barrie and other ranks from Freetown is charged with the responsibility of ensuring that the rate of road accidents in these areas is drastically reduced.
Explaining the level of preparedness in measuring up to the assigned task in an interview with the Sierra Leone News Agency (SLENA), the newly transferred District Traffic Officer said he has been able to set up some modalities geared towards minimizing the rate of road accidents in the areas under his command.
Inspector Alfred Turay said he started by conducting a sensitization training for both drivers and commercial motor bike riders in his area of responsibility. He said the theme of this training was based on enhancing the means through which road accidents could be drastically reduced and at the same time sought out ways of curbing all forms of lawlessness in both drivers and bike riders.
The District Traffic Officer said emphasis was being laid on the need for motorists to secure reflective triangle stands for use in case of a breakdown or any road crash. As buttressed by his second in command, Inspector Barrie, there has been drastic reduction in recorded cases of road accidents since the adoption of these measures, adding that overloading has also been drastically minimized.
In his remarks, the Officer in Charge of OSD Personnel at the Mile 38 Police Check Point, Assistant Superintendent M S Kargbo singled out the lack of a towing vehicle as one of the crucial challenges they are faced with in the course of executing their duties.
He said there is the likelihood for additional accidents to be caused in a situation where vehicles that have had breakdown or involved in an accident are left on the highway without flushing them immediately after the basic findings were done.
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