Indonesia to deploy inline skating police officers to overcome notorious traffic jams

The Associated Press , Jakarta | Fri, 06/20/2008 11:01 AM | Jakarta
Indonesia to deploy inline skating police officers to overcome notorious Jakarta traffic jams[

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. (*)

it'll never work. i give it 3 weeks max before it dies the death. indonesian cops are just too fat and lazy to actually do something as radical as moving under their own power.

Old Sutirto is almost as tight a cunt as you are.

Smells like a copyeditor addition to me..

Nope, smells like Chris Brummitt.

oh, i missed the AP byline.

It'll never work!!!

like i said: i give it 3 weeks max before the coppers on skates die of heart attack or stroke.

They're much too fat. Will they still be wearing the same ill fitting uniforms with the skates??



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