MANAMA: Twenty-four drivers have been arrested in a clampdown on unlicensed school buses.
They were caught transporting students, said Major Osama Bahr, acting director at the traffic culture directorate.
Since the beginning of the school year, the directorate has been monitoring a large number of drivers, taking students to and from schools in violation of the traffic law and without prior authorisation from the general administration of traffic.
Legal action has now been taken against them.
The violators were detained and referred to traffic prosecution, pending trial.
There is a special mechanism to obtain a licence for transporting school students, which requires certain conditions, the official said.
Among other conditions, an applicant must be a Bahraini citizen with at least five years' driving experience.
Maj Bahr warned parents and guardians not to hire school bus drivers before they make sure they are licensed, for the safety of their children.
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