Deputy inspector general (DIG), Kohat division in northwest of Pakistan, Awal Khan yesterday distributed pen cameras among traffic officials for fixing the same on uniform while on duty for bringing transparency and self-accountability in the force. The ceremony in this regard was held at the Police Club.
The DIG said that the initiative was taken following complaints of false ticketing by traffic police. 
He said that recording of the pen cameras would also help in departmental investigations.
DIG Khan said that it would increase the capability of traffic police with the sense that somebody was watching them. 
He said that when combined education, engineering and enforcement of laws would 
ensure good traffic system.
District police officer Abbas Marwat called upon the people to co-operate with the police, especially in rush hours when it became difficult to control traffic.
CRACKDOWN ON KITE FLYING: Residents of the garrison city Rawalpindi near Islamabad persist with kite flying despite the ban while the police come up with new tactics to keep a check on the practice.
The police are using ladders to climb onto rooftops and have tied blades to long cane sticks to bring down kites in the downtown areas.
Extra personnel were also called in from rural stations to assist in the enforcing the provincial ban on the selling and flying of kites.
Police officials deployed at check posts in all three government hospitals have been told to arrest those who are brought in with injuries sustained due to kite flying and plainclothes police personnel have been patrolling the downtown areas.
The police are also using search lights to spot kites in the dark. 
A senior police official said it would seem as if the police have nothing to do other than implement the ban on kite 
selling and flying.
A spokesperson for the police said that more than 12 people have been arrested and several hundred kites have been seized during the ongoing operation in various parts of the city.


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