The Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Boboye Oyeyemi, has posted 36,000 regular and special marshals nationwide for the end-of-year special patrol operations.
The campaign, which is code-named, “Operation Zero Tolerance,” with the theme, “Right to Life on the Highway Not Negotiable,” will start on Wednesday and run till January 15.
According to the FRSC’s Public Education Officer, Bisi Kazeem, 795 patrol cars, 204 motorcycles, 106 ambulances and 21 tow trucks have also been deployed for the exercise.
Mr. Kazeem said the operations will be targeting free flow of traffic, drastic reduction in accidents, and prevention of accident-related deaths across the country.
To achieve the objectives of the campaign, the crops spokesperson said a total of 13 Help Areas and nine camps on accident-prone corridors have been established to cater for accident victims.
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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, and 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,” Mr. Kazeem said.
“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 FRSC spokesperson said.
To ensure compliance, he said a special monitoring team would be deployed to keep an eye on all corridors and guarantee 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.
While reiterating the FRSC’s appeal for cooperation by the motoring public, Mr. Kazeem urged road users to make use of the Corps’ helpline (122) in the event of accidents and other emergencies.