President Tran Dai Quang (L) sends Tet greetings to Hanoi's traffic police on January 26 (Phôt: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – President Tran Dai Quang has toldtraffic police of Hanoi to ensure traffic order and safety during the week-longLunar New Year (Tet) holiday.
He delivered Tet greetings to the capital’sdivision of road and railway traffic police during a pre-Tet visit on January26 (or the 29th of the last month of the lunar year).
He recognised their achievements, attributingthe smooth and safe traffic situation in Hanoi to the local police’s efforts.
It is not easy to address traffic congestion,even in many developed countries, he said, considering the prevention andsettlement of traffic jam a task that helps ensure national security. Hanoi’straffic police need to expeditiously minimise congestion, otherwise the localsocio-economic development will be affected.
President Quang asked the police to closelycoordinate with other agencies, sectors and localities to ensure trafficsafety. They should step up patrol, dissemination of traffic rules, promotionof the staff’s capacity, and application of science-technology in their work.
At the meeting, Hanoi’s traffic police reportedthey took different measures to keep traffic order and safety last year, thusgaining certain encouraging outcomes such as less congestion and a decline inthe number of accidents, deaths and injuries.
In 2017, they will work harder to proactivelygrasp the situation and propose measures to promptly deal with trafficproblems, send officers to control traffic at 361 hotspots across the city, andbetter the settlement of traffic rule violations recorded by cameras.
During Tet, they are going to enhance crackdownson smuggling, counterfeiting, firecracker and unsafe food trafficking, andstreet racing, the police added.-VNA
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President Tran Dai Quang (L) sends Tet greetings to Hanoi's traffic police on January 26 (Phôt: VNA) 
