[1] The police force is responsible for the enforcement of traffic rules, education of traffic laws to the community, issuance of driver' licenses to qualified drivers, advice to the Capital Development Authority on road engineering issues, and regulation of vehicular and pedestrian traffic on highways, avenues and roads of Islamabad and is rated as second corruption free police organization in Pakistan, after National Highways and Motorways Police.

The organization was awarded ISO 9001: 2008 certification on 23 June 2009 for introducing state of the art driver's license, the first police radio station, ITP FM 92.4 headed by Aisha Jamil,[3] the new laws of prohibition on using mobile phone while driving and the wearing of seat-belt while driving, and client-oriented policing service in Pakistan.

Ever since the ITP took over the control in Islamabad, the incidents of road accidents have decreased, and drivers are seen wearing seat belts and avoiding to use mobile phone while driving, indicators of rule of law hardly seen in many other cities of Pakistan and other developing countries of South Asia and world as a whole.

On 20 July 2009, the Islamabad Traffic Police issued a ticket to the son of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani for violating traffic rules thus maintaining their commitment to ensure equal implementation of law in the capital city.

[4][5] Over the last many years, the ITP has fined hundred of VIPs, civil servants, Army and Police officers, Parliamentarians, Judges and Journalists and proved its slogan of equal application of law.