General_Administration_for_Traffic_Safety

Main Directorate for Traffic Safety

Main Directorate for Traffic Safety

Russian traffic policing agency

"GAI" redirects here. For other uses, see Gai.

The Main Directorate for Traffic Safety of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia (Russian: Главное управление по обеспечению безопасности дорожного движения МВД России, ГУ ОБДД, GUOBDD, or Государственная инспекция безопасности дорожного движения, ГИБДД, GIBDD), popularly known under its historical abbreviation GAI (Russian: ГАИ; Госавтоинспекция), is a federal law enforcement agency of Russia specializing in traffic policing. They are responsible for the regulation of traffic, investigating traffic accidents, and operating stop lights.

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The Administration is part of the Public Security Service of the MVD. The Administration has patrol jurisdiction over all Russian highways and roads.

History

The GAI (Russian: ГАИ, IPA: [ɡɐˈi]), short for State Automobile Inspectorate (Russian: Государственная Автомобильная Инспекция, tr. Gosudarstvennaya Avtomobilnaya Inspektsiya), was formed on July 3, 1936. The GAI was part of the NKVD and actively starts executing tasks: fighting accidents, developing technical standards of operation of vehicles, supervises the preparation and education of drivers. And also keep records of accidents, analyze their causes, accident attracts offenders to justice, manages the issuance of license plates, data sheets, search cars, hiding from the accident scene.

In 1961 it was merged with the Road Traffic Control Department.[1]

During the Guerilla phase of the Second Chechen war, as well as during the Insurgency in the North Caucasus, traffic safety officers were regularly targeted by Pro-Ichkerian, and later Jihadist insurgents. They made up a large portion of the law enforcement and Russian government casualties, in addition to FSB, MVD, and ГУОООП members who were assassinated or otherwise killed in action.

After the dissolution of USSR, GAI was renamed GIBDD - General Administration for Traffic Safety. There were rumors from March 2017 that the GIBDD was about to be dissolved until December 2018, as part of Russian police reform and would be merged into the patrol service of the police. The Minister of Internal Affairs denied those rumors.[2]

Structure and organisation

Traffic police officer in Russia
A 1970s/80s-vintage GAZ-24 Volga, in the period squad car livery, installed as a monument in front of the Nizhny Novgorod General Administration for Traffic Safety headquarters.

Roads Patrol Service (Дорожно-патрульная служба)

  • Roads Inspection and Traffic organisation Service (Служба дорожной инспекции и организации движения)
  • Inspection and registration (Служба технического осмотра и регистрации)
  • Investigation Division vehicles (Подразделения розыска автотранспорта)

Other names

  • Department for Ensuring Road Traffic Safety of MVD of Russia (Russian: Департамент обеспечения безопасности дорожного движения МВД России, ДОБДД) abbreviated as DOBDD, since 1994
  • State Inspectorate for Road Traffic Safety (Russian: Государственная Инспекция по безопасности дорожного движения, ГИбДД) abbreviated as GIBDD, since 2002
  • GAI (Russian: ГАИ, IPA: [ɡɐˈi]), short for State Automobile Inspectorate (Russian: Государственная Автомобильная Инспекция, tr. Gosudarstvennaya Avtomobilnaya Inspektsiya), until 2011
  • DPS (Russian: ДПС), short for Road Patrol Service (Russian: Дорожно-патрульная служба, tr. Dorozhno-patrulnaya sluzhba) - a part of the GAI/GIBDD directly responsible for patrolling the streets

Heads of Administration

  • Vladimir Feodorov (1992-2002)
  • Viktor Kiryanov (2003-2011)
  • Vladimir Shvetsov (2011)
  • Viktor Nilov (2011-2017)
  • Mikhail Chernikov (2017-)

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Iskrina, N. A.; Khrapov, I. S. (1996). GAI: 60 years (in Russian). Moscow: The Joint Editorial Office of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs.
  2. [2]
    "Глава МВД России опроверг слухи о слиянии ГИБДД и ППС - ТАСС".
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