Traffic police started performing duties on various roads in the capital from Monday morning, after about one week of work abstention due to insecurity after the fall of Hasina government on August 5.

Students were seen managing traffic on the roads in the capital and other parts of the country in the last few days.

Members of the traffic police took over the responsibilities of traffic management from them on Monday.

Traffic police were present on different roads of the capital since this morning. Traffic police were seen on duty at Dhanmondi, Shahbagh, Farmgate, Khamarbari, Karwan Bazar, Shantionagr and Malibagh intersections.

Anisur Rahman, an employee of a private organisation, said, ‘It’s a relief for city dwellers that traffic police have returned to work. Students did great job by controlling traffic in the last few days, but it should not continue for a long time, there was risk for the young students.’

Ansar members and students were also seen helping to maintain discipline on roads.

After the fall of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina in a student-led mass upsurge, various police stations across the country were attacked and vandalised. Since then, the police personnel went on a work abstention for security reasons.

On Sunday home affairs adviser Brigadier General (retd) M Sakhawat Hossain asked police to return to work by Thursday.

He said those who would not return to work by Thursday would be assumed to be unwilling to work.

Operations of 599 police stations, out of 639, resumed across the country as of 3:00pm on Sunday, according to Police Headquarters.

Of these, 97 police stations out of 110 are functional in the metropolitan cities while 502 police stations out of 529 in districts, it said.