BlackBerry for traffic offenders!

Bangalore's traffic cops have been issued BlackBerry devices to better manage the chaotic and helter skelter traffic. I have serious doubts this will work. It is not technology that will bring about change. One may have the best hitech gadgets but if the cop on the street is corrupt then nothing will change. How many times haven't we seen traffic cops regularly pocketing cash to look the other way from HTVs and other chronic traffic offenders? The issue is not the cop but the fact that he is paid peanuts and treated like shit. And we expect him to be a paragon of virtue and probity. Alongwith modern gadgets the police department should also pay their men very well, send the best of them abroad to see how their counterparts work, equip them with modern motorcycles and patrol cars and most importantly inculcate a sense of pride and professionalism in the force so that educated middle class youngsters will be motivated to join the force. The police dept needs to take a 360 degree view of the traffic situation in Bangalore city and chalk out short, medium and long term strategies encompassing modernisation of equipment, training, pay and allowances and dialogue with the public. Just providing Blackberry devices will not help. I will take a bet these will be consigned to the dustbin in less than 6 months time!