It killed two civilians and wounded 10 other people, including two traffic police officers.
Building robotic traffic police and guides will make it easier for people to overcome their diffidence.
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It was a policeman, not the one from the village but one of the provincial traffic police.
Overnight, the reformers abolished the corrupt 15, 000-strong traffic police and replaced them with 2, 300 American-style road patrollers.
"We want our traffic police to understand how people feel and that's what they're teaching us, " Mr Sharma said.
"We can't be at every junction all the time and such measures help" said Ramachandra, a traffic police sub-inspector.
The province's police chief said the head of counter-terrorism and the chief of traffic police were among the dead.
According to the Italian news agency, Ansa, the raiders were wearing the kind of bibs that traffic police might use.
You've been stopped by the traffic police but don't want to go through the Byzantine procedure for paying a fine.
Militants have attacked the traffic police headquarters in the Afghan capital, Kabul, taking control of the building for several hours.
Other markings are more subtle, but just as useful, in letting the nosey and bribe-hungry traffic police know who's who.
The city's 800 traffic police patrol every major junction, as traffic lights do not function properly because of frequent power cuts.
Four years later as president, he fired all the country's traffic police.
"We are very much concerned about the behaviour of our personnel, " deputy inspector general of traffic police, Bigyan Raj Sharma, told the BBC.
The would-be attackers left the town but were stopped by a traffic police officer on the M1 motorway for having no car insurance.
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The lorry ended up on top of the bus, Gen Hussein al-Harithi, director of Abu Dhabi traffic police told state news agency WAM.
On many practical questions, from dealing with traffic police to finding the sugar in a supermarket, not speaking Hebrew can make life more difficult.
"It's almost impossible to discipline people who have driven for 30 or 40 years, " says Maxwell Pereira, a former chief of Delhi traffic police.
Traffic police officers who are short, obese or abusive are to be removed from the streets of Vietnam's capital Hanoi, local media reports say.
Hundreds of extra traffic police were deployed Sunday morning to control crowds and vehicles, for it was also the day of Rome's annual marathon.
Calcutta's traffic police has put up 40 hoardings carrying the Beatles image as part of a campaign to persuade people to use pedestrian crossings.
The traffic police has been notorious since Soviet days, but Russians are bemoaning the fact that these days everyone appears to be on the take.
According to Radio Liberty, drivers are using the cameras to fight back against Russia's notoriously corrupt traffic police, and scammers trying to extort money out of drivers.
Many Nepalis complain that traffic police are rude and intemperate.
Top posts in the traffic police are also immensely rewarding.
Although placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List three months ago, Mr Jeffs was eventually found as the result of a routine check by traffic police in Nevada.
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Italian media reports said a car belonging to traffic police blocked the ambulance's way into the stadium and a window had to be broken so the car could be moved.
Nepalese film and television stars are giving traffic police in Kathmandu lessons in how to be polite, to help them control their temper when faced with chaos on the roads.
Mr Saleem is credited with another novel initiative called Public Eye, which allows citizens to help police catch traffic offenders by posting photographs of violators on the traffic police website.
It is the latest step taken to try to improve the image of Hanoi's traffic police force, which has faced frequent complaints as it manages the city's hectic flow of vehicles.
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