SHILLONG: In its effort to make the roads of Shillong safe and secure, the Shillong Traffic Police continued its crackdown on tinted glasses and LED lights used in vehicles in the city.
SP (Traffic) Bikram Marak said that since January till June this year, it has compounded as many 207 vehicles for tinted glasses, 240 vehicles and two wheelers for using modified LED lights and as many as 114 vehicles for using modified silencer pipes.
The vehicles fitted with tinted glasses are being compounded as per the orders of the Supreme Court while cars with LED lights are also confiscated.
Marak said that in June alone, cops detected as many as 57 cases of tinted glasses, 95 cases of LED lights and 35 cases of silencer pipes.
He also made it clear that in the days to come the Shillong Traffic Police will continue its crusade against tinted glasses.
Marak further said that the volume of traffic is increasing as there is a surge in the number of registration of vehicles while the roads remain the same.
“We either need to expand our roads or take some drastic steps or else Shillong will be choking soon,” he said while forewarning that traffic will be a worst nightmare in the future.
Lamenting that the traffic police lacks manpower, he added that some workforce will be augmented in STP by September-October as traffic personnel are undergoing training. Once they pass out they will be put on the roads to manage traffic, he added.
