As many as 20,67,000 traffic violations were reported in 2007, according to Major Saif Al Mazrouie, Deputy Director of the General Department of Traffic, Dubai Police. Of these, 17,000 were violations related to trespassing of car parks designated for people with special needs.
“This figure is massive if compared to the number of parking lots allocated for this category of people,” said Major Al Mazrouie.
He noted a total of 2,000 car parks are earmarked for the handicapped all over Dubai, and it is supposed to increase so as to keep up with the rise in the number of shopping malls, public parks, and markets.
The figures came to light in reply to an inquiry by Khaleej Times about the phenomenon of trespassing by employees of local departments and ministries on the parking lots designated for people with special needs.
The signs installed in the fenced car parks at the local departments and ministries that denote they are earmarked for people with special needs, or even the white signs painted on the ground of the parks, have not deterred the employees who think they could not be given a ticket on the grounds that the police patrols have no power to enter such car parks as they are private parking lots.
Khaleej Times lensman had taken photographs of the car parks belonging to the Ministry of Education where the employees encroached the car parks marked for people with special needs, a conduct that prompted the leaders in the ministry to alert their employees not to occupy such car parks.
Major Al Mazrouie clarified that the police patrols do not have the authority to visit the private car parks owned by local departments or ministries which come under their jurisdiction.By the next month, parking laws are likely to be amended and police patrols will be authorised to enter car parks of private property, even in the free zone.
Salah bu Frosha, head of the Traffic Prosecution in Dubai, said the traffic rules currently in place do not apply to private parking zones.
He, however, pointed out that by the next month, under an amended traffic law police patrols will be empowered to handle violations in private parking areas, specifically in the ministries and local departments complexes. Source
“This figure is massive if compared to the number of parking lots allocated for this category of people,” said Major Al Mazrouie.
He noted a total of 2,000 car parks are earmarked for the handicapped all over Dubai, and it is supposed to increase so as to keep up with the rise in the number of shopping malls, public parks, and markets.
The figures came to light in reply to an inquiry by Khaleej Times about the phenomenon of trespassing by employees of local departments and ministries on the parking lots designated for people with special needs.
The signs installed in the fenced car parks at the local departments and ministries that denote they are earmarked for people with special needs, or even the white signs painted on the ground of the parks, have not deterred the employees who think they could not be given a ticket on the grounds that the police patrols have no power to enter such car parks as they are private parking lots.
Khaleej Times lensman had taken photographs of the car parks belonging to the Ministry of Education where the employees encroached the car parks marked for people with special needs, a conduct that prompted the leaders in the ministry to alert their employees not to occupy such car parks.
Major Al Mazrouie clarified that the police patrols do not have the authority to visit the private car parks owned by local departments or ministries which come under their jurisdiction.By the next month, parking laws are likely to be amended and police patrols will be authorised to enter car parks of private property, even in the free zone.
Salah bu Frosha, head of the Traffic Prosecution in Dubai, said the traffic rules currently in place do not apply to private parking zones.
He, however, pointed out that by the next month, under an amended traffic law police patrols will be empowered to handle violations in private parking areas, specifically in the ministries and local departments complexes. Source
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