The Metropolitan Traffic Division Office has installed mannequins dressed as traffic police at various locations of Nepal's capital Kathmandu to make road users aware of proposed hikes in fines after dozens of personnel tested positive for coronavirus.

The placard-holding mannequins are part of the police’s campaign to convey to the public that fines are being hiked, officials said as the number of traffic police personnel to contract the disease in the Valley soared to 133.

“We put up the placards to send a clear message to the people that they will be charged Rs 500 to 10,000 if they violate the traffic rules,'' said Senior Superintendent Bhim Prasad Dhakal, chief at the Metropolitan Traffic Police Division, which has put up 22 mannequins in various parts of the city holding placards that read “violating the traffic rules may attract a fine of up to Rs 10,000.”

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