Ever since he took charge of the Bandra traffic division, Police Inspector Nitin Patil has heralded a wave of traf-fixes in the busy belt outside Bandra and Khar stations on the western side. Apart from collecting Rs 18 lakh in fines, he has managed to weed out errant and illegal auto drivers, bringing order into an otherwise chaotic scene commuters were greeted with every day.

Patil was earlier working in the Crime Branch. In August 2018, he took over as the in-charge for the traffic division of the heavily congested Bandra, which also covers Khar in its jurisdiction. Speaking to mid-day, Patil said, "I was posted in the Crime Branch's Unit IX and its office is hardly half a kilometer away from the station. The crowd emerging out of the station after a day's hard work was further harrowed by the autorickshaw drivers. I always felt that if I am transferred to this particular division of the traffic police, this would be my priority on the very first day. I don't know how, but I got posted in the same unit just a few years later."