Department Chief, Senior Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Duy Ngoc explained that the volume of travelers and vehicles would soar this Tet and, to ensure traffic order, traffic police would have to work harder. The city will mobilize students from police schools, mobile police and the militia to control traffic.

Recently the local media reported many cases in which traffic police officers were attacked by taxi and truck drivers. The latest case happened on February 3 when a truck driver ran his car into a traffic policeman, forcing the officer to jump to the side and cling to the car door (photo). The driver continued to run into the office, knocking the policeman down into the road.

On the same day, a young foreign man who had no helmet was stopped by traffic police. He put the motorbike in the middle of the road, sitting on the vehicle to smoke and causing traffic jams.

Hanoi Police Department’s director, Major-General Nguyen Duc Nhanh, asserted that serious attacks against the police must be brought to court. He said most of the violators came from other provinces and didn’t have good knowledge of the laws.

The General noted that traffic police were trained in self-defense measures and also equipped with weapons, but the attacks still happen.

Nhanh also revealed that he has asked the traffic police forces to locate and fine the foreign man who didn’t obey the police.

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