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Reckless drivers of heavy vehicles in Dubai will be punished
The Bur Dubai Traffic Department has intensified its efforts to monitor vehicles and heavy goods vehicles who commit offences all over Dubai, with a specific focus on the Jebel Ali area.
- Staff Report
- Published: 23:51 August 22, 2008
Dubai: The Bur Dubai Traffic Department has intensified its efforts to monitor vehicles and heavy goods vehicles who commit offences all over Dubai, with a specific focus on the Jebel Ali area.
Eisan Ebrahim Al Awar, deputy director of the Bur Dubai Traffic Police, said it is important to apply the law and ensure the safety and security of road users so that everyone feels secure.
He continued that the Traffic Control Team have to eliminate all dangers on the road.
There should be no leniency towards heavy vehicles committing offences, as they pose great danger, he said.
Patrols have concentrated on heavy vehicles in Jebel Ali.
Police have stopped many who commit road offences, Al Awar said.
In the past eight months, the Traffic General Directorate has confiscated the licences of 1,118 drivers because they had exceeded the permitted number of black points for offences. A further 272 are due to be confiscated as soon as police track them dow.
The law stipulates that 24 is the maximum permissable number of black points.
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