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Jakarta's skating police

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Indonesia's skating police officers battle traffic

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Traffic police in Jakarta are using a new and untested weapon in their daily fight against traffic jams. Twenty policemen have been trained to use in-line skates while directing traffic. However as Al Jazeera's Step Vaessen reports, the roller brigade is still a little unstable on its feet.

Skateboard police to fight traffic jams in Indonesian capital
AKARTA - RIA Novosti (Jun. 20, 2008)
Traffic police on skateboards will began patrolling the Indonesian capital from July 1, the Koran Tempo newspaper reported on Friday.

The city's traffic police chief, Dua Sutirto, said police had hired a professional skateboarder to teach a team of 20 young police officers. He believes that skateboards will be able to get traffic police to any congested road in Jakarta much faster than cars or motorbikes.

Jakarta is one of Asia's most congested cities. Carpooling measures, restricted access to downtown areas, and the creation of dedicated bus lanes have already proved largely ineffective in the battle against traffic jams.
RIA Novosti: Skateboard police to fight traffic jams in Indonesian capital

Jakarta to deploy traffic police on skates
Add to del.icio.us JAKARTA, Indonesia (Jun. 20, 2008)
Indonesia is rolling out a new weapon in its battle against gridlock: traffic police on inline skates.

The idea is that officers will be able to reach traffic jams in the capital Jakarta quicker than by car or motorbike, the Koran Tempo daily reported. Once there, they will be able to direct vehicles to get the city's traffic flow moving again.

The city’s top traffic cop Dua Sutirto said the force had hired a professional inline skater to teach the team of 20 officers before it is deployed on July 1.

“Most of the men are young and fast," Sutirto was quoted as saying.
Jakarta suffers from some of the worst traffic jams in Asia and it remains to be seen what effect—if any—the inline skating police team will have on the problem.

Jakarta is slowly rolling out a network of dedicated bus lanes, but it is still desperately short of buses, while attempts to enforce carpooling have been ineffective.

Traffic police in Jakarta have a reputation for laziness and often demand bribes from motorists to ignore minor or imaginary violations. The city's 12 million residents generally hold them in low regard. - AP
GMANews.TV: Jakarta to deploy traffic police on skates

Skating Jakarta police on a roll to control traffic

By Lenita Sulthani - Reuters India (Jul. 7, 2008)

There's the canine unit and the equine unit and now police in car-congested Jakarta, where gridlock is legendary, have set up a new force to combat traffic jams -- the in-line skate unit.

With a run-down public transportation system and some 14 million residents, Jakarta is known to be one of the most difficult cities in Asia to navigate, even for the traffic police who is often stymied by the congestion.

But the 20 officers who have spent the past four weeks weaving through the streets on their skates don't have to worry about gridlock any more.

"We park our vehicles as close as we can to the traffic jams. Then we go into the jam area on rollerblades to direct the traffic," said Commander Sutirto who heads the special squad and who like many Indonesians goes by only one name.

Decked out in helmets, knee and elbow pads, the skating police received a month of intensive training. Many officers said their biggest challenge was staying upright on the city's bumpy and sometimes pock-marked roads.

Some motorists welcomed the rollerblading officers as a time-saving solution, but others said the police needed to crack down on the bad driving that causes the jams rather than just resolve them.

"Motorists must be disciplined. They must not cross into other people's lanes," said motorist Eko Juli.

Getting around sprawling Jakarta and suburbs is a time-consuming and often arduous feat. Traffic crawls along at a frustrating snail's pace during rush hours and is often chaotic due to the rising number of vehicles and frequent flooding.

Jakarta's governor has promised to tackle the traffic problem by building more busways, a monorail and a subway. But a remedy is unlikely any time soon as it will cost billions of dollars in an impoverished and corruption-riddled country and take several years to complete.
Reuters India: Skating Jakarta police on a roll to control traffic

Jakarta's traffic police on a roll

(Jul. 7 2008)

Police in car-congested and often gridlocked Jakarta have come up with a novel way to get officers into traffic jams - they've created an in-line skate unit.

Decked out in helmets, knee and elbow pads, the skating police received a month of intensive training.

"We park our vehicles as close as we can to the traffic jams. Then we go into the jam area on Rollerblades to direct the traffic" - head of the in-line skate unit Commander SutirtoThe head of the in-line skate unit, Commander Sutirto said: "We park our vehicles as close as we can to the traffic jams. Then we go into the jam area on Rollerblades to direct the traffic."

Jakarta's skating police

http://youtube.com/watch?v=1kEqX6MCvNc

Many officers said their biggest challenge was staying upright on the city's bumpy and sometimes pock-marked roads.

Some motorists have welcomed the Rollerblading officers as a time-saving solution, but others said the police need to crack down on the bad driving that causes the jams.

Traffic crawls along at a frustrating snail's pace during rush hours in Jakarta and is often chaotic due to the rising number of vehicles and frequent flooding.
ITN: Jakarta's traffic police on a roll
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