The traffic police will check you as guards

Vadim Karastelev, an expert of the Moscow Helsinki Group, told OVD-Info that the MHG, together with the Russian Federation of Car Owners, will conduct a number of raids to control the work of the traffic police. This is done within the framework of the MHG presidential grant, which provides for the development of civilian control over the police, and based on the experience of civil inspections of other departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Work will begin in Moscow, but there is also an agreement with the Road Traffic Safety Inspectorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation to extend the experience to 30 regions of Russia. In some cases, volunteers will observe the inspectors from the side, fixing whether they are equipped in the form, whether the badge is in place, how correct they are with drivers, whether they intelligibly explain violators of their rights. In other cases, to conduct conversations with the inspectors in order to identify how the service regulations are observed. In addition, volunteers will be on duty on the streets, where "drunken accidents" are most often recorded, along with the police. The presence of activists will prevent bribery in cases where traffic police officers stop drunk drivers.

According to Karastelev, the traffic police authorities react positively to the idea of ​​cooperation with civil activists.