Spasovski: Police activities are yielding results in reducing the number of traffic accidents

Oliver Spasovski, Minister of Interior - photo: Drgagan Mitreski / Free Press

Today, the Minister of Interior Oliver Spasovski participated in the Second Meeting of the Observatory for Road Safety in the Western Balkans, entitled "The role of the traffic safety agency and the importance of reliable and confidential data in policy making".

"In support of the second decade - action for road safety and the vision for zero victims", is the topic on which Minister Spasovski spoke, together with the Minister of Transport and Communications Blagoj Bochvarski and the Head of Cooperation at the European Union Delegation in our country Stephen Hudolin .

Spasovski referred to the effectiveness of the measures for limiting the speed and the way in which the Ministry of Interior has been working on their implementation in the past period. He pointed out that the Ministry of Interior from 2018 onwards has drastically strengthened the measures and activities in the field of road traffic safety, primarily in terms of operational operation of the traffic police in all organizational police units. Those normative-repressive mechanisms, underlined Spasovski, were and are aimed at the offense of speeding, which is one of the key factors, namely the causes of traffic accidents with serious and fatal consequences.

In the period from the beginning of the year until October 31, 166.853 misdemeanors were registered by the police officers during their regular work and conducted controls, which is an increasing trend by 70 percent compared to the same period in 2020. Requests for filing misdemeanor proceedings have increased by 80 percent - 51.306 requests. The most common offenses, Spasovski informed, for which these requests were submitted are speeding, driving without a driver's license and the use of unregistered vehicles.

- Such intensified police activities give results expressed, above all, by reducing the number of traffic accidents with fatal consequences, which shows that we are on the right track, said Minister Spasovski, the Ministry of Interior announced today.

He pointed out that the Ministry of Interior is also working hard on technical upgrading of traffic control, especially in terms of exceeding the prescribed speed, through the procurement and use of new handheld radars "laser cam 4", equipped with night recording devices, and in order to improve the effectiveness of such measures and at the same time to exclude the human factor and emphasized that the establishment of an electronic video surveillance system to control the speed of vehicles is underway.

Asked about the role of the traffic police in collecting data from on-site traffic accidents and harmonizing data with the CADAS protocol, Spasovski outlined plans for full digitalisation of the system and electronic connection of data with GPS location and connection with data from other systems such as is health.

- The Ministry of Interior in the past period realized the first part of the project 'Electronic minutes of traffic accident inspection', which establishes a central, electronic record of performed inspections of traffic accidents, thus ensuring the entry, storage and processing of data from the Minutes for inspection at the scene of the traffic accident, said Spasovski. He added that during the preparation of the software solution of the Unified Form of Minutes for inspection of traffic accident, the implementation of CADAS protocol was implemented, which incorporated the Minutes for inspection of traffic accident, the Questionnaire SN1 and the data from Important The expert teams are already working on the preparation of the second phase of the project "Electronic minutes for inspection of traffic accidents".

Spasovski announced that in the coming period the Ministry of Interior plans to upgrade the existing software solution for entering the so-called GEO - coordinates and possibility for electronic exchange of data with other institutions.

The second meeting of the Western Balkans Road Safety Observatory was attended by representatives of the International Transport Community, the World Bank, the European Commission, the International Automobile Federation and the World Health Organization.

Source: MIA

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