Transport Month: 177 new traffic officers to boost road safety in KZN
177 newly recruited traffic officers parading for their event.
Image: KZN Department of Transport / Facebook
MEC of Transport and Human Settlements Siboniso Duma has welcomed177 new traffic officers for the launch of transport month in line with the zero tolerance campaign. The launch took place in Pietermaritzburg Athletics Stadium.
The new recently graduated traffic officers will enhance the campaigns of the department of transport namely Zero tolerance, Alufakwa, and No Nonsense campaigns.
All this is for the improvement of road safety. The pass rate of the newly recruited traffic officers is 89% and has 120 males and 57 females.
MEC of Transport and Human Settlements Siboniso Duma addressing the newly recruited 177 traffic officers at the Pietermaritzburg Athletics Stadium.
Image: KZN Department of Transport / Facebook
“I have given our efficient, dedicated and energetic RTI team a mandate to arrest reckless drivers and those who are driving under the influence of alcohol. The new recruits will have no mercy. We are injecting energy. We are injecting discipline. We are inspiring hope for a better future,” said Duma.
Leading up to this there were five incidents that happened in Pietermaritzburg including the tragic accident involving scholar transport. In his keynote speech MEC assured that their deaths will not be in vain, highlighting that throughout October there will be a series of awareness about road safety management, with the emphasis for the new recruits that no one is bigger than the law.
“You must arrest everyone irrespective of their profile in society. You must not be intimidated by anyone. Arrest professionals, lawyers, police, engineers and councillors or any other professional,” he said.
In the closing of his keynote speech, he applauded the RTI College for training and developing the new traffic officers and was in no doubt that KZN will be known as a capital skilled, professional and efficient traffic officers.
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