Main Directorate for Traffic Safety

The Main Directorate for Traffic Safety of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia (

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

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

• Police of Russia
• Militsiya
• MVD
• Highway Patrol

External links

• Official page of the General Administration for Traffic Safety

References