The Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC),
Dr Boboye Oyeyemi, has ordered the deployment of 36,000 regular and special
marshals nationwide for the end-of-year special patrol operations, reports ITRealms.
The Corps Public Education Officer, Mr Bisi Kazeem, confirmed
this to ITRealms, saying that 795
patrol cars, 204 motorcycles, 106 ambulances and 21 tow trucks will also be
deployed for the exercise.
Kazeem said the operations were targeting free flow of
traffic, drastic reduction in accidents, and prevention of accident-related
deaths across the country, among others, during the period.
He identified the operational strategies to include
establishment of 13 Help Areas and nine camps on accident-prone corridors to
cater for accident victims.
Other strategies, according to him, are quick response time
to distress calls, 24-hour visibility along critical corridors, uninterrupted
motorised patrol, day-time route lining, traffic control and deployment of 201
mobile courts.
He said the Corps would also activate high alert on internal
and external medical facilities to intervene in case of crashes, undertake
aerial surveillance and purposeful synergy with other security agencies.
According to him, the FRSC boss has also ordered strict
enforcement of traffic laws with focus on speeding, dangerous driving, use of
phone while driving, overloading, passenger manifest violations, among others.
``Management staff, Zonal Commanding Officers, Zonal
Heads of Operations and other senior officers of the Corps have been massively
deployed to monitor the exercise along critical corridors.
``Commanding Officers have been directed to closely
collaborate with sister security agencies to ensure safe and secured
end-of-year patrol operations.
``Their involvement is to provide security support and
to check the activities of recalcitrant offenders, dissidents and other
anti-FRSC elements,’’ the spokesman said.
Kazeem added that a Special Monitoring Team would be
deployed to keep an eye on all corridors and ensure strict compliance to the
Corps Marshal’s directives.
The special monitoring, he explained, would provide
first-hand information to the FRSC boss on happenings in the field as it
relates to the operations.
While reiterating the FRSC’s appeal for cooperation by the
motoring public, Kazeem urged road users to make use of the Corps’ helpline
(122) in the event of accidents and other emergencies.
Ayo Midele/GEE
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