Latest

Traffic Police’s Widespread Deployment Ensures Safe Eid al-Adha Atmosphere in the Capital

Sana'a: The Capital Secretariat is witnessing an intensive deployment of traffic police personnel during the Eid al-Adha holiday across various streets, intersections, parks, and recreational areas, with the aim of facilitating traffic flow and ensuring smooth movement in a way that reflects the festive atmosphere, enhancing citizens' sense of safety and reassurance. According to Yemen News Agency, the General Department of Traffic Police was keen to implement a traffic management plan during the Eid holiday, which helped ease congestion in areas witnessing heavy family turnout during the holiday, away from chaos and traffic jams. At a time when parks, public gardens, and recreational places are experiencing a large influx of visitors, the wide deployment of traffic police officers on streets, roads, and intersections stands out in organizing traffic and ensuring the safety of citizens during one of the religious occasions that witnesses heavy traffic movement. The Traffic Police implemented an intensive fi eld plan during the Eid days to prevent traffic congestion that could disrupt the joy of the holiday. The plan included redistributing personnel and vehicles across all main streets. A total of 2,216 officers and personnel, along with 144 large and medium-sized vehicles and equipment, are participating in implementing the plan, in addition to teams stationed at all intersections throughout the capital. The plan aims to facilitate the movement of road users throughout the streets of the Capital Secretariat safely and smoothly, while ensuring traffic flow, especially in crowded streets, areas near commercial centers, and markets. It also includes intensifying deployment around public parks, shopping malls, recreational areas, and tourist sites. The efforts are not limited to organizing traffic movement, but also include the deployment of vehicles to remove broken-down or illegally parked cars causing road blockages. In addition, operation rooms have been activated around the clock to receive citizens' reports and coordinate with nearby patrols. Extra parking spaces have been allocated, circular traffic movement has been organized around Al-Sabeen Park to reduce congestion, and some narrow streets have been designated for pedestrians only during peak hours, alongside organizing bus stations and regulating public transportation movement at the entrances to the capital. In a move that received widespread public praise, the Traffic Police, in cooperation with the Yemeni Red Crescent, launched an additional field deployment plan for traffic control teams supported by medical and ambulance services along highways and long inter-provincial roads, alongside road traffic police personnel and equipment already stationed at their posts. This comes as part of a strategy aimed at enhancing road safety, reducing accidents, and securing citizens' movement during the Eid holidays. The plan included equipping traffic teams with Red Crescent ambulances fitted with comprehensive medical supplies, in addition to providing specializ ed medical crews to handle emergencies around the clock on the long-distance routes connecting the governorates. Coinciding with Eid, the Traffic Police also launched awareness campaigns through local radio stations and social media platforms, urging citizens to comply with traffic officers' instructions and road regulations, demonstrate patience while driving, and avoid dangerous behaviors such as improper parking in front of park entrances, speeding, and driving against traffic. Meanwhile, the Road Traffic Police continue to regulate traffic flow on the long-distance roads linking the capital, Sana'a, with other governorates, which witness heavy movement of vehicles and public transport buses during the Eid holiday. This places significant pressure on road police forces to manage traffic and reduce accidents throughout the festive period. This year's Eid al-Adha plan witnessed a major shift toward strengthening the 'assistance, rescue, and ambulance services' launched by the Traffic Police in implementat ion of the Ministry of Interior's development strategy. The initiative has resulted in a series of successes recognized by citizens and travelers alike, reflected in the professional treatment of the public and the provision of traffic guidance with a spirit of responsibility and concern for everyone's safety. Under the slogan 'Support and Compassion,' the Road Traffic Police and their centers deployed along mountain roads and long inter-governorate routes succeeded in providing emergency assistance to hundreds of stranded vehicles through mobile workshops and traffic service units that helped repair sudden mechanical failures in travelers' cars, extinguish engine fires, and tow broken-down vehicles causing traffic congestion on mountainous roads. These distinguished efforts reflect an honorable image of the traffic police officers who work tirelessly in the field to organize traffic and provide assistance, rescue, and ambulance services. They also demonstrate a high level of discipline, readiness, and comm itment to citizens' safety, making Eid an occasion where the values of order and security are clearly embodied.