Main Directorate for Road Traffic Safety (Russia)
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Main Directorate for Road Traffic Safety Traffic Police |
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| Abbreviation | GIBDD | ||||
| Motto | Serve Russia, Serve the law | ||||
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| Formed | July 3, 1936 | ||||
| Preceding agency | GAI | ||||
| Legal personality | Governmental: Government agency | ||||
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| Size | 17,098,242 square miles (44,284,240 km2) | ||||
| Population | 143,975,923 (2015 est.) | ||||
| Legal jurisdiction | As per operations jurisdiction. | ||||
| Governing body | MVD | ||||
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| Specialist jurisdiction | Highways, roads, and-or traffic. | ||||
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| Headquarters | Moscow, Russia | ||||
| Parent agency | MVD | ||||
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| http://www.gibdd.ru/ | |||||
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| Anniversary | July 3 |
Main Directorate for Road Traffic Safety of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia (Russian: Главное управление по обеспечению безопасности дорожного движения МВД России, ГУ ОБДД), popularly known under its historical abbreviation GAI (ГАИ), is a law enforcement agency and the Russian Traffic Patrol. They are responsible for the regulation of traffic, investigating traffic accidents, and manning the stop lights.
The Directorate is part of the Public Security Service of the MVD. The Directorate (abbraviated as GIBDD or GUOBDD) has patrol jurisdiction over all Russia highways.
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.
After the dissolution of USSR, GAI was renamed GIBDD - Main Directorate for Road Traffic Safety. On March 2017 it was reported that the GIBDD is about to be dissolved until December 2018, as part of Russian police reform and will merged into the patrol service of the police.
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