Hyderabad : The Telangana govt has created a specialised police bureau to bring traffic management, enforcement, road crash investigation and highway patrolling under a common statewide framework. The Telangana Traffic Management, Road and Rail Safety Bureau (TG-TMARS), headquartered in Hyderabad, will have jurisdiction over national highways, expressways, state highways, district roads and urban and rural roads.
Highway patrol units will be created at police stations with traffic and road-safety issues and those covering more than 50 km of national or state highways. A Traffic Management Fund will receive 40% of police compounding fees and fines. Existing traffic wings and e-challan operations will come under its oversight, while 300 posts from police wings will migrate to the bureau.
Every police station will designate a road crash response officer for round-the-clock crash response, securing accident scenes, shifting the injured during the golden hour and recording details on iRAD/eDAR. Fatal and grievous crashes will be examined by multi-departmental committees. Crash data will be used to identify high-risk corridors, black spots and repeat violations. Each unit will have a head constable, constable and vehicle equipped with dashboard cameras, automatic number plate recognition and speed-detection systems. The govt has sanctioned a Joint Commissioner of Police (Traffic) post in every commissionerate and an Additional SP (Traffic) post in every district. TG-TMARS must become fully operational within six months.
A State Traffic Training Academy will train personnel in traffic systems, electronic enforcement and crash investigation. A Vigilance, Standards and Compliance Cell will audit e-challans and enforcement and examine complaints.