Main Directorate for Road Traffic Safety (Russia)

"GAI" redirects here. For other uses, see Gai.
Main Directorate for Road Traffic Safety
Traffic Police
Abbreviation GIBDD
Motto Serve Russia, Serve the law
Agency overview
Formed July 3, 1936 (1936-07-03)
Preceding agency GAI
Legal personality Governmental: Government agency
Jurisdictional structure
National agency
(Operations jurisdiction)
RUS
Federal agency
(Operations jurisdiction)
RUS
Size 17,098,242 square miles (44,284,240 km2)
Population 143,975,923 (2015 est.)
Legal jurisdiction As per operations jurisdiction.
Governing body MVD
General nature
Specialist jurisdiction Highways, roads, and-or traffic.
Operational structure
Headquarters Moscow, Russia
Commissioner responsible Viktor Nilov
Parent agency MVD
Website
http://www.gibdd.ru/

Main Directorate for Road Traffic Safety of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia (Russian: Главное управление по обеспечению безопасности дорожного движения МВД России, ГУ ОБДД), popularly known under its historical abbreviation GAI (ГАИ), is a law enforcement agency and the Russian Traffic Patrol. They are responsible for the regulation of traffic, investigating traffic accidents, and manning the stop lights.

The Directorate is part of the Public Security Service of the MVD. The Directorate (abbraviated as GIBDD or GUOBDD) has patrol jurisdiction over all Russia highways.

History

A Russian traffic officer, 2006
USSR GAI Badge
Exhibits museum of History of Donetsk militia, Ukraine
A 1970s- or 80s-vintage GAZ-24 Volga, in the period squad car livery, installed as a monument in front of the Nizhny Novgorod Main Directorate for Road Traffic Safety headquarters.

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]

After the dissolution of USSR, GAI was renamed GIBDD - Main Directorate for Road Traffic Safety.

Structure and organisation

Other names

Heads of Directorate

See also

References

  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.
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