The Rail Safety Inspection Office ( cs, Drážní inspekce) is an agency of the government of the
Czech Republic
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. It supervises the Czech rail system and investigates rail accidents and incidents.
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The agency has its headquarters in
1st district,
Prague
Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...
. The agency has 38 employees in five offices, including those in Prague,
Brno
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,
České Budějovice
České Budějovice (; german: Budweis ) is a city in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 93,000 inhabitants. It is located in the valley of the Vltava River, at its confluence with the Malše.
České Budějovice is t ...
,
Ostrava
Ostrava (; pl, Ostrawa; german: Ostrau ) is a city in the north-east of the Czech Republic, and the capital of the Moravian-Silesian Region. It has about 280,000 inhabitants. It lies from the border with Poland, at the confluences of four rive ...
, and
Plzeň
Plzeň (; German and English: Pilsen, in German ) is a city in the Czech Republic. About west of Prague in western Bohemia, it is the Statutory city (Czech Republic), fourth most populous city in the Czech Republic with about 169,000 inhabita ...
.
History
In accordance with
Act No. 77/2002, the agency was established in January 2003.
References
External links
The Rail Safety Inspection Office of the Czech Republic homepageThe Rail Safety Inspection Office of the Czech Republic homepage
Rail accident investigators
Rail transport in the Czech Republic
2003 establishments in the Czech Republic
Government agencies of the Czech Republic
Transport organizations based in the Czech Republic
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