'No forbidden zones, no exceptions' in handling violations of traffic order and safety

Panorama of the Conference at the Provincial People's Committee bridge. Photo: Tien Dong

Faced with complicated developments in the situation of order and traffic safety, on April 19, 2023, the Prime Minister issuedDirective No. 10/CT-TTg on strengthening the work of ensuring order and traffic safetyRoads in the new situation. The Directive emphasizes the viewpoint of renewing thinking, awareness and action, identifying ensuring order and traffic safety as the driving force for socio-economic development, an important element in ensuring human security, political security, order and social safety of the country. Taking people as the center, the subject, the driving force, the resource; putting the safety of people's lives, health and property first and foremost; ensuring people's rights is the top priority in all activities of the functional forces.

After Directive No. 10 was issued, on May 16, 2023, Nghe An Provincial People's Committee also issued Plan 328/KH-UBND for implementation. In particular, ensuring order and traffic safety is identified as a particularly important content. Enhance the role and responsibility of leaders, promote the strength of the entire political system and the entire population; strive to achieve the goal of overcoming traffic congestion and minimizing traffic accidents. Specify assigned tasks and identify the implementation of Directive 10 as a key content, implemented regularly, continuously, synchronously, and closely in line with reality.

The Provincial People's Committee has identified 9 key tasks and solutions. These include reviewing and handling the responsibility of leaders if the traffic order and safety situation is complicated due to inadequate implementation of responsibilities within the scope of management; Strengthening inspection, examination, investigation, and strictly handling violations of the law, wrongdoings, and negative acts in traffic; Focusing on detecting and strictly handling violations that are the main causes of traffic accidents; Innovating the content and form of propaganda; Focusing on reviewing, amending, supplementing and perfecting mechanisms and regulations on ensuring traffic order and safety; Building a roadmap for synchronous implementation of traffic infrastructure planning associated with socio-economic development planning; Improving the effectiveness of vehicle registration and management in the direction of vehicle identification associated with personal identification; Increasing investment in infrastructure and equipping specialized forces with vehicles; Synchronously deploying solutions to prevent and overcome traffic congestion.

Some opinions have suggested strengthening inspection and punishment of violations of order and traffic safety, especially driving after consuming alcohol. Photo: Dang Cuong

At the Conference, representatives of departments, branches and local authorities also gave some comments to improve the effectiveness of ensuring order and traffic safety. In particular, in addition to propaganda, it is necessary to have practical solutions, increase patrols, control and punishment of violations, from not wearing helmets when riding motorbikes, carrying more people than the prescribed number, to driving after drinking alcohol; Proposing to increase the authority of the Commune Police in handling order and traffic safety on inter-village and inter-commune roads; paying attention to installing surveillance camera systems on roads; increasing investment in upgrading roads, eliminating black spots that often cause traffic accidents...

Some localities with expressways under construction have proposed to urgently complete the construction of service roads to facilitate people's travel and limit the risk of traffic accidents...

Comrade Nguyen Van De - Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee delivered a concluding speech at the Conference. Photo: Tien Dong

Concluding the Conference, Comrade Nguyen Van De - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee requested departments, branches, sectors and People's Committees of districts, cities and towns to closely follow Plan No. 328 of the Provincial People's Committee on concretizing Directive No. 10 of the Prime Minister. In particular, the functional forces need to strictly handle violations with the viewpoint of "no forbidden zones, no exceptions".

It is strictly forbidden for officials and party members to interfere with or influence the handling of traffic law violations by competent authorities; it is strictly forbidden for assigned forces to show signs of "compromise" or neglect in handling violations in any form.

All cadres and party members who violate traffic laws must be reported to their agencies and units for strict handling according to the regulations of the Party, each industry, agency, and unit...