Police Enforcement Strategies and Partnerships in Eastern Europe

1. Police Enforcement Strategies and
Partnerships in Eastern Europe

2. About easst
EASST is a partnership of local road safety organizations in:
• Armenia
• Azerbaijan
• Belarus
• Georgia
• Kazakhstan
• Kyrgyzstan
• Moldova
• Russia
• Tajikistan
• Ukraine

3. Through partnership, EASST Aims to:
• Make road safety a priority for governments
• Improve road safety management & policy
• Improve enforcement
• Promote safety across all 5 Pillars of the UN
Decade of Action
• Facilitate regional and cross-border
initiatives
• Share resources, training and best practice.

4. Established that the loss of human life and
health are unacceptable
Essential elements:
• Strategic and institutional organization of road
safety policy;
• Road safety management;
• Political leadership: Prime Minister leading the
National Council for Road Safety (NCRS);
• Key ministry is the MIA
• Civil society represented and playing active role.
National Road Safety Strategy 2011-2020

5. The need for reform
• Deeply politicized police
• Obsolete legislation
• Duplication of functions
within the MIA
• Negative public confidence
in policing
• Insufficient police presence and impact
• High road casualties

6. National patrol inspectorate created
• Specialized subdivision under the
General Police Inspectorate to maintain
public order and road safety.
• Activity coordinated by three regional
centers: North, Central and South;
• Allows centralized management of all
patrol crews, an improved control system
and quicker response times.

7. Police morale: new uniforms
New police uniforms approved April 2013

8. Training
Currently training conducted only by
the Police Academy ‘Stefan cel Mare’
•Police officers and 30 NCOs trained
•The real need is for around 500 NCOs
•CONCERN: The academy provides
only theoretical training
For continuous professional development, in future it is necessary to create a
police training center equipped to modern standards.

9. equipment
New vehicles and enforcement technologies
• Intensive patrolling in parks and entertainment
areas
• Police reaction time cut from 45 to 15 min
• Human factor in documenting traffic offences
excluded (new video monitoring system, video
cameras, etc.)
• Reduced opportunities for bribery.
Results:

10. Video monitoring system
350 VIDEO CAMERAS, 43 RADARS, INSTALLED IN 41 CROSSROADS IN CHISINAU
AIMS:
• To reduce crashes, educate drivers
• For identification of offenders
• To increase security and ensure public
order
Concerns:
•Some resistance from public
•‘Speed Awareness’ courses to be
trialed

11. Video monitoring system:
Average speed measurement:
Mobile documentation in vehicle: Expanding system on national highways:

12. Corruption prevention strategies
• Promoting an ethical police culture and morale
• Good quality training
• Improving recruitment procedures
• Improving individual accountability
• Reducing opportunities for corruption and bribery
• Strengthening management and supervision – particularly in high risk
areas
• Monitoring and proactive investigation
• Improving the security of information
• Independent oversight of policing.
Should apply to all personnel, including at the highest levels

13. Combatting corruption
2014 Anti-Corruption Year
•1520 – Anticorruption hotline number
•Portable video cameras – Equipping police with
cameras to register their actions
•Police ethics policy
•Public warnings – “If you try to bribe a state
representative you are risking 6 years in jail.”

14. Positive policing: Awareness & prevention
Information and verification campaigns:
•"Child safety seats" (January 2014)
•"The traffic light" (March 2014)
•"The warning light" (March 2014),
•“Railway crossings” (April 2014)
•"The motorcyclist" (April 2014)
•"Hit" (June 2014),
•“Cut speeds" (June-July 2014)
•“Dangerous Transport" (June 2014)
•“Safety on buses" (March, June, Aug,
Sept)
•29 other campaigns….
Use of social media
and advertising
Special tickets
eliminated

15. Drink drive enforcement
‘White Nights’ –
• Road Police cordon off towns or city
areas for random breath-testing
• Initially found around 12% of drivers
drunk
• Since implementation, reduced to 3%

16. More women recruited
More female
police officers
has meant:
• Greater
acceptance by
drivers of road
enforcement
• An increase in fines collected
• Less aggression and fewer complaints
against the police

17. Younger police force recruited
AGE DISTRIBUTION OF EMPLOYEES GENERAL POLICE INSPECTORATE 2014

18. INCREASING LEVELS OF CONFIDENCE IN THE
POLICE
Results: public confidence
”Good policing, on the way to being distinguished policing, happens not because of the techniques, tools, or
structures of a police department.
But because of the values held by the men and women who do the work”

19. ROAD CRASHES 2009-2014
Results: reduced road casualties
2729
2921
2825
2712
2603 2564
476 452 433 441
295 304
3288
3735
3543 3510
3221
3080
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1000
1500
2000
2500
3000
3500
4000
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Accidents Deaths Injured
”The primary mission of Government is to protect the public.
Traffic crashes are preventable incidents that can be systematically
addressed”

20. RESULTS:
Police enforcement – “White Nights”
special operations in full progress
Successful advocacy led to strict law
and penalties
Since November 2016 :
New amendments regarding
-Increase of the conventional unit (from
20 up to 50) for fines.
-Decrease of blood alcohol
concentration threshold (0.5 g/l in blood
and 0.3 mg/l in breath).
-Re-limits the minimum degree of
alcohol concentration in the blood: from
0.3 g/l to 0.5 g/l and the alcohol
concentration in the breath 0.15 mg/l -
0.3 mg/l.

21. how moldova compares
Number of road
deaths per
capita
• Moldova has better results than most
neighbour states
• Progress must continue in order to get
closer to the EU average
• During 2014 there were 2,564 traffic
accidents (-1.6%), resulting in 304
deaths and 3,080 injuries (-4.3%)
• Most crashes were the fault of drivers -
2,209 or 86.2% of all collisions
recorded

22. • Further institutional capacity building
• Creation of modern training centers
• Continuous training for all staff
• More modern equipment
• New projects developed and implemented
• More cooperation partnerships developed
• Improving services for society
• Further decreasing response time
• More effective communication both internal
and external
• Strengthening and promoting transparency
• Increasing police presence throughout the
country
Future tasks: