First aid training: Traffic wardens to become emergency responders

Officers will be provided with kits to react to accidents.

LAHORE: Authorities plan to provide traffic wardens with first-aid kits so they can become initial responders to road accidents. This was revealed by Chief Traffic Police Officer Rai Ijaz Ahmed as he spoke to The Express Tribune.

“They are planning to the kits to wardens who will be present on the roads at all times,” he said.

The City Traffic Police is also planning a comprehensive plan to train on duty wardens. A module was devised for the purpose and is designed as a refresher course for these officials. The objective is to teach them methods to handle accidents and enforce traffic discipline or SOPs.

City Traffic Police officials from all 34 sectors would undergo this exercise, Rai said. Four-hour programmes will be organised in every sector for both shifts of the day and psychologists, professionals and scholars will train the personnel.

In the first session of the programme, wardens will be imparted medical emergency training.

Psychologists will lecture traffic policemen on controlling stressful situations on the job and ways to tackle any occupational frustration or depression. Meanwhile, scholars will impart knowledge on personality grooming and character-building.

SPs and DSPs will train them about maintaining discipline and effective traffic management. The CTO, himself, will deliver lectures at the end of each programme about standard operating procedures and also take the feedback of the participants.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 26^th, 2017.