Ziganshin M.M. On the issue of road safety provision by traffic officers of the State Road Safety Inspectorate of the Russian Federation

Abstract: The subject of the research is road safety, particularly the activities of traffic officers of the State Road Safety Inspectorate in the sphere of road safety and rules of the road observance provision with a view to preservation of life, health and property, protection of rights and interests of citizens and legal entities, interests of society and state, provision of safe and regular traffic. The author adduces statistical data of serious traffic accidents serving as universally recognized indexes of road safety level. The solution of road safety problems depends on the enhancement of traffic officers’ efficiency. The author analyzes the forms and methods of road safety service. Traffic police control over the rules of the road observance is an important way of traffic participants’ behavior regulation. Traffic control cannot be absolutized only to administrative offences revelation; it should be aimed at road safety provision, minimization of coercion and punishment. Prevention of reasons and conditions of road accidents should be the top priority. The methodological base of the research includes the statistical and formal logical methods, and the general scientific methods of deduction, induction, analysis and synthesis. The author concludes that the work of traffic police should be aimed at the prevention of reasons of traffic accidents, reduction of severity of their consequences with a view to preservation of life, health and property of traffic participants, and road safety is an integral part of public security of the state. 

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