Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) Mayor Sadeque Hossain Khoka handed over the keys of five patrol cars, five pick-up vans, two jeeps and four wreckers to DMP Commissioner Ashraful Huda.

"As a poor country it is very difficult for us to collect these expensive vehicles. So our traffic police must take enough care of them and make sincere efforts to create a model traffic system in the city," said Sadeque, also the chairman of Dhaka Transport Coordination Board (DTCB).

He urged the DMP to restore its fame by discharging duties with further devotion and honesty.

DTCB Executive Director Kamrul Islam Siddique, who chaired the function, expressed his satisfaction over the development of the traffic system in the capital.

He said there will be further improvement of traffic system if more traffic police are trained up and at the same time our people and motor drivers show more civic sense regarding driving and road crossing.

The DUTP, financed by the World Bank, has been working in Dhaka metropolitan area to improve urban transport infrastructure and services and strengthen institutional and policy framework and address long-term transport planning and coordination issues through the city corporation.

Sources said the DUTP has so far handed over 115 motorcycles, 100 walkie-talkies, two TATA buses, 287 helmets, metal detectors and trained at least 300 traffic police.

Representatives from DTCB, DUTP, DCC were present at the function.