rawalpindi-City Traffic Police (CTP) Rawalpindi has been provided licensing services to as many as 185,485 citizens during 2020 including renewal of 28,149 old driving licenses besides issuing 145,222 learner permits. According to Incharge Licensing Saqib Rizwan, 145,222 learner driving permits have been issued during the period besides 8,002 new licenses. He further informed that 28,149 old driving licenses were renewed during 2020 while 764 duplicate licenses were also issued to the applicants. As many as, 2,387 driving licenses of other districts were also renewed here, he informed.
He further said that CTP made 484 international driving licenses during last year.
Computerised driving licenses were issued under a transparent procedure, he said.
Chief Traffic Officer, Rawalpindi Syed Ali Akbar told that the citizens should directly contact licensing branch of the traffic police and get all required information in this regard so that they could not face any difficulty regarding issuance of driving license. He informed that manual file system was eliminated in 2020 and CTP launched one window operation system to facilitate the applicants.
He said that the citizens can contact free helpline 1915 of city traffic police to get any information and guidance.
The CTO said that CTP was making all-out efforts to facilitate the citizens while the licensing services had also been provided at Khidmat Markaz Kutchery and 15 Liaquat Bagh Center.