State Automobile Inspectorate

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The State Automobile Inspectorate (Template:Langx, GAI), formerly known as the Main Directorate for Traffic Safety of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia (Template:Langx, GUOBDD, or Template:Langx, ГИБДД, GIBDD) is a federal law enforcement agency of Russia specializing in traffic policing. It is responsible for regulating traffic, investigating traffic accidents, operating traffic lights, and issuing driving licenses.

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

Contents

1 History

2 Structure and organisation

3 Other names

4 Heads of Administration

5 See also

6 References

7 External links

History

The GAI (Template:Lang-rus), short for State Automobile Inspectorate (Template:Langx), was formed on July 3, 1936. The GAI was part of the NKVD. Its tasks included preventing accidents, keeping records of them and analyzing their causes, cleaning accident scenes, arraigning individuals responsible for accidents, developing technical standards for the operation of vehicles, supervising the preparation and education of drivers, managing the issuance of license plates, filling data sheets, and searching cars.

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

During the guerrilla 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 GUOOOP members who were assassinated or otherwise killed in action.Template:Citation needed

After the dissolution of the USSR, GAI was renamed GIBDD.Template:Citation needed There were rumors from March 2017 that the GIBDD was about to be dissolved by December 2018, as part of the Russian police reform, and would be merged into the patrol service of the police. The Minister of Internal Affairs denied those rumors.[2]

On May 28, 2024, GIBDD was renamed back to GAI.[3]

Structure and organisation

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Traffic police officer in Russia

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State Automobile Inspectorate patrol in Russia

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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 (Template:Langx) abbreviated as DOBDD, since 1994

State Inspectorate for Road Traffic Safety (Template:Langx) abbreviated as GIBDD, since 2002

GAI (Template:Lang-rus), short for State Automobile Inspectorate (Template:Langx), until 2011

DPS (Template:Langx), short for Road Patrol Service (Template:Langx) - 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

Police of Russia

Militsiya

MVD

Highway Patrol

Traffic Police

References

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External links

Official page of the General Administration for Traffic Safety

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