Head of traffic police has explained why the inspectors to stop drivers outside posts

6 December 2017

Michael Chernikov gave an interview in the state Duma

In October, entered into force new administrative regulations the traffic police. Several of his points sparked fierce controversy and criticism. Gradually, some ambiguities are clarified by the authorities. Literally days, the Central Bank officially canceled help on the accident, and the head of traffic police Mikhail Chernikov explained about the filming staff. Now he explained why the inspectors returned the right to stop the car outside of the posts.

On Tuesday Mikhail Chernikov at the invitation of the liberal democratic party visited the state Duma. One of the main issues with the deputies concerned the abolition of the ban on the stop of vehicles out of stationary posts. The chief of police assured that the inspection is not aims to thus increase the collection of fines: "any statistics on detection of administrative violations, I can assure you we are not set. Share if you know about such cases will be hard to understand."

According to Chernikov, the key purpose of the stops of drivers out of stationary posts is to identify drivers who are in a state of alcoholic intoxication. Also the inspector will look for announced in search cars, to control the rules of transportation of children and to check the technical condition of vehicles.

The head of the traffic police said that such offences have not yet can be fixed with by automatic means. In particular, photos and cameras is able to identify the drunk and the driver deprived of a driving licence. Also check out posts will be useful when the tracing of stolen cars: in this case you need to act as quickly as possible at this entering information in a database takes time.