A new phenomenon witnessed in today's modern lifestyles is stress. The very nature of work, work life balances and changes in working culture and environment within the organization in all professions has made Stress is at a higher level in the Police force for a variety of reasons, as discussed in this research paper. In Pune city traffic police force stress levels are high because of increasing Pune population and the increasing number of vehicles. This study was undertaken to explore work stress for traffic police. The main reasons for this are work overload, poor work environment, lack of resources, poor infrastructure facilities, and a really inadequate traffic police workforce which is disproportionate to Secondary data has been used for this study. This study aims to find out reasons for work stress and offers suggestions to reduce work stress for traffic police. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]