The Main Directorate for Traffic Safety of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia (, IBDD or GUOBDD, popularly known under its historical abbreviation GAI (ГАИ), is a federal

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specializing in traffic policing. They are responsible for the regulation of

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, investigating traffic accidents, and operating

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. The Administration is part of the Public Security Service of the

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. The Administration has

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over all Russian highways and roads.

History

The GAI ( rus, ГАИ, p=ɡɐˈi), short for ''State Automobile Inspectorate'' (), 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 The Road Traffic Control Department ( rus, Отдел по регулированию уличного движения, Otdel po regulirovaniju ulichnogo dvizhenija), abbreviated as ORUD ( rus, ОРУД, links=no), was the road traffic control, h ...

. 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,

, 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 is about to be dissolved until December 2018, as part of

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and will merged into the patrol service of the

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. The Minister of Internal Affairs denied those rumors.

Structure and organisation

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

of Russia'' () abbreviated as DOBDD, since 1994 * ''State Inspectorate for Road Traffic Safety'' () abbreviated as GIBDD, since 2002 *GAI ( rus, ГАИ, p=ɡɐˈi), short for ''State Automobile Inspectorate'' (), until 2011 * DPS ( rus, ДПС), short for ''Road Patrol Service'' ( rus, Дорожно-патрульная служба, 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-)

External links

Official page of the General Administration for Traffic Safety

References