Traffic Policemen

Forty traffic policemen were transferred enmasse in Thane after a viral video showed some personnel allegedly taking bribes from motorists in the city's Mumbra area, an official said on Sunday.

A woman held her child inside an ambulance that was stuck in heavy traffic in Fatuha near Patna. She frantically asked some policemen to let them go as the child had been fighting for life.

A third consecutive night of violence in France sparked by the killing of a teenager by a policeman during a traffic stop has left 249 police and gendarmes injured, the interior ministry announced Friday.

Now policemen not following traffic rules in Rajasthan will have to pay double fine and departmental action will be taken against them in a strict move to curb such violations, an official statement said on Tuesday.

The daughter of a BJP MLA allegedly misbehaved with Bengaluru policemen after she jumped a traffic signal in a BMW.

Several key roads in central Delhi and entry to Metro stations in the Old City have been closed in view of heightened security a day after violence that broke out during protesting farmers' Republic Day tractor rally that left one dead and at least 85 policemen injured.

On a day 40 policemen were released from hospital after being treated successfully for COVID-19, the Kolkata Police also reported two deaths, a police constable and a police man in the force. Respects were paid to constable Dilip Sardar, who was posted at Sealdah Traffic Guard. He died on Saturday. He had been admitted to a state-run hospital in Ko...

Three persons died and several were injured as protests swept at least 10 states against the Centre's new law on citizenship. Permission for the protest was denied in almost all states but the protesters defied the police and a lockdown across Uttar Pradesh, parts of Delhi, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh. In Mangaluru, where curfew has been declared,...

Being a cop is a thankless job, Union Minister of State Kiren Rijiju said in a tweet that he later deleted, as policemen took out an unprecedented protest in Delhi after clashes with lawyers at a court on Saturday. Thousands of Delhi policemen surrounded the Police Headquarters in the protest, blocking traffic on a busy road in the capital.

A journalist alleged that he was assaulted by two policemen in Noida when he cautioned them to be careful while riding a motorcycle on the wrong side of the road, that too without helmets. The Noida Police claimed that the journalist was allegedly drunk and was roughed up by some other "unidentified" men.

Policemen deployed to deal with traffic and arrangements for movement of VIPs in Rajasthan will have to deposit their mobile phones with their senior officers, according to an order issued today.

Motorcycle riders in Palakkad riding without helmets were in for a "sweet" surprise on Friday as traffic policemen distributed ladoos and asked them to wear the head protective gear for a safe journey.

In what could be a major embarrassment for the Lucknow Police, as many as 305 policemen, including 155 traffic personnel, were booked for traffic violations in a day-long campaign in Lucknow on Friday.

The new regulation aims at creating a central online database of all the vehicles and drivers. Traffic policemen will also be given a handy tracking device to read the QR Code spontaneously to catch hold of the offender even for the past violations. The state government, however, will be allowed to install a chip and additional features into the ca...

Two traffic policemen in Noida's Gautam Buddh Nagar were suspended on Friday for allegedly illegally recovering money from a cab driver, an order said.

Forty traffic policemen were transferred enmasse in Thane after a viral video showed some personnel allegedly taking bribes from motorists in the city's Mumbra area, an official said on Sunday.

A woman held her child inside an ambulance that was stuck in heavy traffic in Fatuha near Patna. She frantically asked some policemen to let them go as the child had been fighting for life.

A third consecutive night of violence in France sparked by the killing of a teenager by a policeman during a traffic stop has left 249 police and gendarmes injured, the interior ministry announced Friday.

Now policemen not following traffic rules in Rajasthan will have to pay double fine and departmental action will be taken against them in a strict move to curb such violations, an official statement said on Tuesday.

The daughter of a BJP MLA allegedly misbehaved with Bengaluru policemen after she jumped a traffic signal in a BMW.

Several key roads in central Delhi and entry to Metro stations in the Old City have been closed in view of heightened security a day after violence that broke out during protesting farmers' Republic Day tractor rally that left one dead and at least 85 policemen injured.

On a day 40 policemen were released from hospital after being treated successfully for COVID-19, the Kolkata Police also reported two deaths, a police constable and a police man in the force. Respects were paid to constable Dilip Sardar, who was posted at Sealdah Traffic Guard. He died on Saturday. He had been admitted to a state-run hospital in Ko...

Three persons died and several were injured as protests swept at least 10 states against the Centre's new law on citizenship. Permission for the protest was denied in almost all states but the protesters defied the police and a lockdown across Uttar Pradesh, parts of Delhi, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh. In Mangaluru, where curfew has been declared,...

Being a cop is a thankless job, Union Minister of State Kiren Rijiju said in a tweet that he later deleted, as policemen took out an unprecedented protest in Delhi after clashes with lawyers at a court on Saturday. Thousands of Delhi policemen surrounded the Police Headquarters in the protest, blocking traffic on a busy road in the capital.

A journalist alleged that he was assaulted by two policemen in Noida when he cautioned them to be careful while riding a motorcycle on the wrong side of the road, that too without helmets. The Noida Police claimed that the journalist was allegedly drunk and was roughed up by some other "unidentified" men.

Policemen deployed to deal with traffic and arrangements for movement of VIPs in Rajasthan will have to deposit their mobile phones with their senior officers, according to an order issued today.

Motorcycle riders in Palakkad riding without helmets were in for a "sweet" surprise on Friday as traffic policemen distributed ladoos and asked them to wear the head protective gear for a safe journey.

In what could be a major embarrassment for the Lucknow Police, as many as 305 policemen, including 155 traffic personnel, were booked for traffic violations in a day-long campaign in Lucknow on Friday.

The new regulation aims at creating a central online database of all the vehicles and drivers. Traffic policemen will also be given a handy tracking device to read the QR Code spontaneously to catch hold of the offender even for the past violations. The state government, however, will be allowed to install a chip and additional features into the ca...

Two traffic policemen in Noida's Gautam Buddh Nagar were suspended on Friday for allegedly illegally recovering money from a cab driver, an order said.