How should a traffic police car be positioned on the road?

New requirements for traffic police inspectors

Late in the evening you are returning home by car, suddenly, as if out of nowhere, a wave of a baton and a traffic police officer next to his disguised car stops you.

I think many people are familiar with this situation and many were outraged by the actions of the police. Did you know that in accordance with the new regulations concerning administrative issues in the activities of the traffic police, many provisions have been corrected and replaced. Any lawyer will tell you that there are many “gaps” in our legislation regarding the regulation of certain issues. Likewise, the activities of traffic police officers were not fully regulated in legal acts. What dishonest traffic police officers often used.

Let's look at the main changes in the administrative regulations of the traffic police. The most significant change is that from now on the traffic police patrol car should be clearly visible to drivers, and not be hidden in an unclear way or where! The management of the traffic police has repeatedly stated that the main task of their department’s employees is not to punish drivers, but to prevent possible offenses. This is the main and main task of a person standing on the road with a rod.

At late times, traffic police officers must stand so that their car is in a lighted area and the special coloring of the official car is visible.

Also, traffic police officers can no longer stop you if they are patrolling in a car without a special paint job. Remember, only an inspector in a patrol car with a special paint job and special signals can stop you from now on. Patrol cars without special painting can only assist the main crew, but in no way stop the drivers!

The regulations also clearly define the circle of persons for whom a traffic police officer does not have the right to draw up a protocol on an administrative offense. These include: investigators of the Investigative Committee, prosecutors, judges. In relation to these persons, the inspector has the right to report to the nearest traffic police post about the observed offense and draw up a report.

Another important clarification is to establish a clear difference between inspection and search of a vehicle. Perhaps every driver has been asked to open the trunk at least once in his life. From now on, these actions are unacceptable. Any intervention by the inspector, even checking the engine number, is regarded as an inspection, during which the inspector is obliged to invite two witnesses, and also draw up an appropriate protocol.

Remember, protecting your rights is not only not difficult, but also necessary in any situation!

Administrative regulations of the traffic police. New changes.

Good afternoon, dear readers. In this article we will talk about a document that is not directly related to drivers - about the administrative regulations of the traffic police . This document regulates the behavior of traffic police officers. And since all drivers have to contact them sooner or later, it is important and useful to know about this document and its contents.

Today we will discuss the latest changes to the administrative regulations of the traffic police, which come into force on February 16, 2010.

Patrol car concept

From the paragraphs below, the most important idea for us is that a patrol car can be either with printed color schemes (they represent the inscriptions of the traffic police, traffic police, etc.) or without them.

Patrol vehicles include vehicles of the State Traffic Inspectorate (car, motorcycle, bus), which are on the balance sheet of the internal affairs bodies and included in the checklist. Further also - “patrol car”.

Patrol cars can be used with a special color scheme applied to the outer surface in accordance with the national standard of the Russian Federation and equipped with devices for giving special light and sound signals, as well as without the specified special color schemes and devices for giving signals.

Is it possible to hide patrol cars in the bushes?

The patrol car must be positioned so that it can be seen by road users. The purpose of such placement is not to “catch the violator by the hand,” but to prevent violations. Thus, it is prohibited to hide a car in the bushes, but you can hide it behind a bus stop or behind a hillock. Moreover, this is only possible in emergency areas or when using photo and video recording.

The new regulations also prohibit camouflaging a car and parking it in the dark. This is undoubtedly very important. I'll explain why. Imagine this situation: “You are driving along the road at night somewhere outside the city. And then an incomprehensible person jumps out of the bushes and demands to stop. What kind of person this is and what her intentions are is unknown.” Now patrol cars will only be parked on illuminated sections of roads, and there will never be any doubt about who is waving from the darkness.

43. When monitoring traffic using a patrol car that has a special color scheme, it must be placed in a stationary position in such a way that it is clearly visible to road users and there is an opportunity for timely suppression of the offense.

In order to ensure traffic control in emergency areas, as well as in cases of traffic control using photo and video recording of violations of traffic rules, a patrol car can be placed in places with visibility limited by natural breaks in the terrain and road turns , as well as elements of the road network.

Actions of employees entailing deliberate interference with the recognition by road users of a special color scheme, stationary devices for giving special sound and light signals of a patrol car are not allowed (except for cases of using special technical means for recording violations of traffic rules, operating in automatic mode, placed inside a patrol car with the luggage compartment panel open).

In the dark and in conditions of limited visibility, the employee must serve on illuminated sections of roads, have a luminous rod and reflective equipment.

Patrol car without color schemes

As you may have noticed, the above mentioned only cars with special color schemes. But there are cars without them. However, such cars can also control traffic. But they cannot stop your car , but will only transfer information to another post or car in case of violation.

44. When controlling traffic, a squad of officers in a patrol car without a special color scheme ensures its interaction with other squads (stationary, pedestrian posts, squads in patrol cars with a special color scheme), which, if necessary, stop and formalize an administrative offense. facilities.

Should you stop or not if the car is without color schemes or is parked in the bushes?

Based on the changes made to the administrative regulations, a reasonable question arises: “to stop or not?”

The correct answer to this is to stop . This is due to the fact that the traffic police regulations are a document of the traffic police. And the driver's document is the Rules of the Road.

Moreover, there is a penalty :

Failure to comply with a lawful request of a police officer to stop a vehicle shall entail the imposition of an administrative fine in the amount of two hundred to five hundred rubles .

So whether to stop or not in a dark forest is an open question. It's probably better not to stop and pay a fine than to stop and end up in a bad situation. In general, don’t break the rules, and no one will stop you. Good luck on the roads!

Can traffic police hide in the bushes under the new Order No. 664?

On the Internet, against the backdrop of the entry into force of the new Order No. 664, together with its Administrative Regulations, they are increasingly writing about official permission to hide a traffic police patrol car in the bushes, behind buildings or in other places when catching violators. Allegedly, a clause about this has been included in the amended regulations. Is this so and can the traffic police hide in the bushes according to the new Order No. 664 in 2019, let’s find out!

To begin with, we note that the police, which includes the traffic police service, are entrusted with the responsibility of suppressing and preventing violations, as well as identifying them. At the same time, the first two tasks clearly have priority over the third, according to the very formulation of “road safety”, the function of which the police are vested with. Whatever illusion the inspectors may have regarding the detection of violations, human rights functions in any law always take precedence over the law-executive ones!

Do traffic police officers have the right to catch violators in the bushes?

The issue of the legality of this is directly regulated by two legal acts:

• Federal Law “On Police”,
• Administrative regulations put into effect by Order No. 664.

The first in his article 8 tells us that the actions of the police are public in nature, but there is no contradiction in the possibility of hiding a patrol car behind bushes, buildings, structures, hills and other objects.

Therefore, let's turn directly to the regulations. Paragraph 63 regulates three positions and conditions of visibility of a patrol car at once.

So, the first paragraph of paragraph 63 tells us the following:

63. When supervising road traffic using a patrol car that has a special color scheme, it must be placed in a stationary position in such a way that it is clearly visible to road users and there is the possibility of timely suppression of the offense.

It seems that everything is logical, and the answer to our main question has been received. If police activity is public, and the suppression of traffic violations is paramount, then the car must be clearly visible. But it's not that simple!

In order to ensure traffic supervision on emergency sections of the road, as well as in cases of traffic supervision using photo and video recording of violations of traffic rules, a patrol car can be placed in places with visibility limited by natural breaks in the terrain, turns roads, as well as elements of the road network .

This is the second paragraph of the same point. It follows from it that the traffic police can still hide in the bushes, according to Order No. 664 (more precisely, its regulations), but only under two certain conditions (fulfillment of any one of them):

1. Traffic police hide the car when they are on duty only on emergency sections of the road,
2. Photo or video recording of traffic violations is used.

Moreover, almost always in 2019, when detecting violations, traffic police officers use a video camera. It is a fact.

But at this point there is no direct listing of bushes. Bushes can be elements of arranging a street and road network, but only if they are planted for the purpose of such arrangement - that is, artificially (for example, to protect the road from snow in winter), and did not grow themselves near the road. However, neither one nor the opposite can be proven, and therefore there is a gap in the interpretation of this legal act.

But the most important thing is that no semantic changes occurred in Order No. 664. The regulations of Order No. 185 contained almost the same wording, only slightly modified. Therefore, the news that has swept the Internet that only after the release of a new Order the traffic police can hide in the bushes is nothing more than a “duck.”

How to determine an emergency-hazardous section of the road?

No, this is not the area marked with warning sign 1.33:

This sign warns of other dangers, and this is directly indicated by its name. It is not directly related to emergency sections of roads, although it is installed in front of them. But this does not mean at all that if you saw this sign, then in front of you is an emergency area.

On Road Safety gives us a clear definition of such a section in its Article 2:

emergency-dangerous section of the road (place of concentration of road traffic accidents) - a section of the road, street, not exceeding 1000 meters outside a populated area or 200 meters in a populated area, or the intersection of roads, streets, where three or more accidents occurred during the reporting year transport accidents of one type or five or more traffic accidents, regardless of their type, as a result of which people were killed or injured.

As you can see, an area acquires the status of an emergency-hazardous area if there is a certain number of accidents on it during the reporting year. But you won’t find such information anywhere, even by sending an official request to the traffic police. The maximum is the statistics of road accidents for the regions of the constituent entities of Russia on the official website of the traffic police statistics.

And with such statistics, almost any section of the road in our country can be considered an emergency.

Therefore, in practice, traffic police officers can hide a car in the bushes almost anywhere. But that is not all. We said above that paragraph 63 of the regulations also has a third paragraph.

Color schemes and signal devices must not be hidden

So, the third paragraph prohibits inspectors, even if the patrol car is hidden in the bushes, from deliberately preventing drivers from recognizing the attributes of the car:

Actions by employees that involve deliberately interfering with the recognition by road users of a special color scheme or devices for producing special sound and light signals of a patrol car are not permitted.

But this does not mean at all that they can hide a car in the bushes, but at the same time the color schemes and the “flashing light” of the patrol car should be clearly visible. This point is similar, for example, to the driver hiding license plates with a sheet of paper or dirt in the form of deliberate interference with their identification.

But this interpretation also does not exclude the obligation not to hide such schemes and “flashing lights” in the bushes when violations are detected.

What is allowed to a traffic police inspector on the road: myths and reality

The main document that spells out the rights and responsibilities of a traffic police inspector is the administrative regulations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the execution of the state function of monitoring and supervising compliance by road users with road safety requirements. The regulations were approved by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs No. 185 of 03/02/2009. In addition, traffic police inspectors act in accordance with the Law “On the Police”, as well as the Code of the Russian Federation on Administrative Offences.

A traffic police inspector can stop a car to check documents only at a stationary traffic police post - true.

But inspectors can easily stop you anywhere! The cunning take advantage of the fact that the regulations (clause 63), which spell out all the grounds for stopping a vehicle, have several loopholes.

Some police officers, for example, refer to a fictitious message from another road user about a traffic violation. The inspector stops your car and talks about the signal received. Say, a car similar to yours drove into oncoming traffic. Therefore, a check is being carried out. Such an inspector will look at the documents, turn his nose to detect the smell of alcohol, and if there is nothing to complain about, he will let you go.

Others talk about some kind of special operations. In general, such special events can only be carried out on the basis of an order from the head of the traffic police department.

When carrying out special operations “Nevod”, traffic police inspectors can stop cars regardless of whether the driver violated traffic rules or not.

For stopped cars, the area is fenced off using special cones. The traffic police regulations allow this.

Trying to read this document will lead nowhere. The regulations do not directly indicate that the inspector shows such orders to drivers. They will not provide you with any information over the phone if you decide to call the traffic police department on duty.

In addition, any inspector, having stopped you somewhere on the highway, can refer to the Law “On the Police,” which allows you to stop vehicles to check documents and the presence of a compulsory motor liability insurance policy.

Grounds for stopping a vehicle (clause 63 of the administrative regulations of the traffic police):

signs of violations of road safety requirements identified visually or recorded using technical means;

availability of data (orientations, information from the duty officer, other squads, road users, visually recorded circumstances) indicating the involvement of the driver and passengers in the commission of a traffic accident, crime or administrative offense;

availability of data (orientations, information from operational and search records, information from the duty officer, other squads, road users) about the use of the vehicle for illegal purposes or grounds to believe that it is wanted;

the need to interview the driver or passengers about the circumstances of the commission of a traffic accident, administrative offense, crime of which they were or are eyewitnesses;

the need to involve a road user as a witness;

implementation of administrative and regulatory actions;

the need to use the vehicle for operational purposes;

the need to involve the driver to assist other road users or police officers;

carrying out, on the basis of administrative acts of the heads of internal affairs bodies, management bodies of the State Traffic Inspectorate, special events related to the inspection in accordance with the goals of the relevant special events of vehicles, persons traveling in them and transported goods;

verification of documents for the right to use and drive a vehicle, documents for the vehicle and the cargo being transported, as well as documents proving the identity of the driver and passengers (only at stationary traffic police posts).

Communication with the inspector can be filmed on a photo or video camera - true.

For traffic police officers, the regulations explicitly state: not to interfere with video recording or the use of a voice recorder. The exception is special prohibitions established by law. This could be, for example, a ban related to state secrets or the inviolability of people's private lives. But communication with the inspector is not subject to such prohibitions.

Testing for intoxication only in the presence of two witnesses is a fiction.

If the traffic police inspector has a video camera, then you can do without witnesses. The fact is that Article 25.7 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation provides for either the presence of witnesses or the use of video recording when checking the driver for intoxication. If the inspection is recorded, a note is made about this in the protocol. The inspector attaches the video recording to the case file.

If the inspector has a video camera, he can conduct an intoxication examination himself. In this case, witnesses are not needed. By the way, during the check, the driver can be in his car. But if the inspector asks you to leave, you will have to obey.

The traffic police inspector has no right to check the tint - this is a fiction.

If previously only technical supervision inspectors could check the light transmission of tinted windows, now a traffic police inspector with a special rank has the right to do this.

Based on paragraph 63 of the Regulations, the inspector has the right to stop (visually identifying too dark windows) the car and check the “density” of the tinting. This is done with a special device, which must be certified and have a verification certificate.

All traffic police officers who have a special device can check the tint. The main requirement for the device is the presence of a certificate and verification document.

A traffic police inspector does not have the right to stop a car where traffic regulations prohibit it - it’s true.

Clause 66 of the Regulations prohibits a traffic police inspector from stopping a car where stopping is prohibited by traffic rules.

As an exception, a stop is allowed if it is necessary to suppress a crime, administrative offense, or carry out administrative and regulatory actions.

There is one more option for the inspector. To stop cars under a prohibiting sign, the inspector can mark the stopping place with a service vehicle with flashing lights on or fence off a section of the roadway with cones.

After being stopped by an inspector, you don’t need to get out of the car - it’s true.

I remember, as soon as I received a driver’s license (this was back in 1994), every time the car was stopped by the traffic police, I ran out to meet the inspector. I was sure that this was necessary.

There is no need to go to meet the inspector. Documents can be shown without leaving the car.

In fact, it is enough to show the documents to the traffic police inspector while sitting in the car. Only in certain cases may you be asked to leave the salon. All of them are specified in paragraph 70 of the Regulations.

Cases when a traffic police inspector can ask the driver to get out of the car (clause 70 of the administrative regulations of the traffic police)?

the need to troubleshoot;

the driver shows signs of intoxication or illness;

to carry out, in the presence of the driver, a comparison of the numbers of units and components of the vehicle with the entries in the registration documents;

to conduct a personal search, inspection or inspection of a vehicle and cargo;

when his participation is required in the implementation of procedural actions, as well as in providing assistance to other road users or police officers;

when the driver's behavior poses a threat to the personal safety of the employee.

To draw up documents about traffic violations, you need to get into a traffic police car - a fiction.

As I already noted, the traffic police inspector may ask you to get out of the car only in certain cases. If we are talking about drawing up a protocol or resolution, then there are simply no grounds for asking you to leave your car and get into a patrol car.

When filling out case materials, it is not at all necessary to get into a traffic police car. But if the driver shows signs of intoxication, the inspector will strongly suggest moving into a patrol car.

In paragraph 70 of the Regulations, it would seem that there is one basis - the participation of the driver in the implementation of procedural actions. But you can write an explanation (if necessary) in your car. Sign the necessary papers too.

What's wrong with checking documents? I would really like for everyone to drive with a license and insurance, so when they check me for no reason, I don’t feel any negative emotions. The more document checks, the fewer drunk, disenfranchised, and uninsured people. This takes about 40 seconds.

Apparently they don’t like to communicate with the police.
They regularly stop me every week, only once they asked me to get out and look at the badge, spit on the asphalt, why-so-tired (but that’s understandable - it’s the middle of the night in Scarlet Sails), they didn’t introduce themselves once (and even here it’s clear, in the car there was a dog that suddenly materialized and barked). Constantly polite, almost everyone is somehow trying to joke and wishing them a good trip. I’ll soon start stopping at posts myself, because where else can you get so much care? xd

And the post is kind of useless, no real myths, no revelations

Whoever gets stopped, they stopped me at the checkpoint and tried to divert me into oncoming traffic.

The camera was installed in such a way that it looked as if people overtaking cars at an unequal intersection found themselves behind a solid line (in the oncoming lane), so that this intersection was not visible. Apparently, it depends on the experience of communication: those who are simply stopped react normally to it, but those who were tried to be defrauded do not like it :)

This is about when you see a traffic police crew and know that with an 80% probability they will stop you, exactly you.

it's a little annoying)

One day I was stopped twice with flashing lights, the first time they saw that our windows were fogged up, in a Zhiguli.) An hour later, the tail light was not working.)
Moreover, on weekends you won’t find them during the day, but on weekdays they are parked every 100 meters.

I have one sign - if I’m driving at night and I see a crew within a radius of 50 meters, then I can immediately stop, even if they were just driving past. 9 out of 10 that they will stop

Once is not against it. But when you drive after 23 from one end of the city to the other and you are stopped in each district 4 times in a row, these infuriate you... They have a “sober driver” operation every weekend and late in the evening when the flow is not big, they slow everyone down.. This is really infuriating because they slow down the crowd and you stand there waiting for them to come check on you

I've never seen anything bad. but when you are stopped by, at best, every second patrol, it really quickly begins to irritate. For some reason they stopped stopping me only this year; before I could bet money that if I met two patrols on the way, one of them would definitely stop me. And I wouldn’t mind if they stopped me on business, but every time they stopped me “to check my documents,” I received two fines of 500 rubles each for the entire time I was driving. - both from cameras. I visited my parents in the village once for 1-2 weeks, and each time in the same place, at the entrance to the village, the same patrol stopped me for several years - to check my documents. They already remembered my name, they knew that I practically didn’t drink, even on January 1 there was not a hint of fumes, but they still constantly slowed me down. I don’t know why this happened, but it started to bother me in the first year, because most of the time I drive for work, and standing at every checkpoint just to show documents is a waste of time, it raises my nerves, because instead of doing In my job, I spend my time satisfying the inspectors' curiosity.

I don’t know why, but having driven the car out after the New Year holidays, restoring it after an impact (not my fault), until now the gays have whispered - they have never slowed down yet). You can’t imagine what a relief this is, otherwise I was really starting to have some kind of mania

Who knows where you go, I get stopped at most once every six months, I go almost every day, sometimes to Moscow and back.

I agree, I always show documents without any problems and it takes 30-40 seconds maximum, but putting them away later in the book is expensive, but these are minor things

Dragging captain, excuse me, I can’t connect to the Internet, can I find an article on Pikabu from your computer to object to you?

Is it possible to sit in your car in the driver's seat and drink beer without moving, even without the keys in the ignition?

And who will answer the question about stopping a vehicle at night, outside a populated area? It's still not clear to me. When I was learning, the instructor said to ignore and continue driving to a stationary post, stop there, and explain the situation - they say, you can’t stop at night outside of stationary posts. But a friend stopped, and the inspector told him that the car was a stationary station. Brad in my opinion. So is it necessary to stop near such cars at night, with chopsticks?

At night it is possible, only the chandelier on the car must be turned on.

Order 186 states about chandeliers at night, so don’t criticize a person if you have no idea what they’re talking about.

How should a DPS car stand?

Where should the traffic police car be parked?

I'll explain why. Imagine this situation: “You are driving along the road at night somewhere outside the city. On October 15, a new administrative regulation for vehicle registration comes into force, which may help solve the problem.

Don't panic, it won't lead to anything good. Gather your courage and get ready to communicate with the inspector.

Deregistration is also not mandatory, because this happens when registering in the name of the new owner.

New traffic police regulations.

What drivers need to get used to

Indeed, the permitting clause has disappeared from the regulations, but there is no prohibition there either. The traffic police explained this by the redundancy of the norm: after all, permission to film a conversation is provided for by the Law “On Police.” One day with a truck driver from Europe “The new edition of the regulations excludes the norm obliging police officers not to interfere with the use of cameras, video cameras and sound recording equipment by road users.

This decision is due to an exhaustive list of responsibilities assigned to the police, and the exclusion of this norm does not interfere with the implementation of the constitutional right of citizens to freely seek, receive, and transmit information in any legal way,” Bykov said. However, as experts believe, cases where unscrupulous employees cannot be ruled out Traffic police will decide to frighten drivers with a lack of permission and demand that they stop filming. Politeness However, frightening, at least theoretically, should become more difficult.

Can the traffic police stop anywhere under the new order No. 664?

But the grounds for stopping a car are listed in separate paragraphs (in paragraph.

Isn't the law written for them? — what and how traffic police officers can violate

Section 3 of the Road Traffic Rules states that drivers of vehicles with a blue flashing light and a special sound signal on may deviate from the following traffic rules:

1. Section 9 (location of vehicles on the roadway);
2. section 8 (starting movement, maneuvering);
3. Section 18 (priority of route vehicles).
4. section 15 (traffic across railway tracks);
5. section 13 (passing intersections);
6. section 16 (traffic on motorways);
7. Section 6 (traffic light signals), with the exception of traffic controller signals;
8. Section 14 (pedestrian crossings and stopping places for route vehicles);
9. section 17 (traffic in residential areas);
10. section 12 (stopping and parking);
11. section 11 (overtaking, advancing, oncoming traffic);
12. section 10 (travel speed);

Administrative regulations of the traffic police. New changes.

And then an incomprehensible person jumps out of the bushes and demands to stop.

What kind of person this is and what her intentions are is unknown.”

Now patrol cars will only be parked on illuminated sections of roads, and there will never be any doubt about who is waving from the darkness.43. When controlling traffic using a patrol car that has a special color scheme, it must be placed in a stationary position in such a way that it is clearly visible to road users and there is an opportunity for timely suppression of an offense. In order to ensure traffic control in emergency -dangerous places, as well as in cases of traffic control using photo and video recording of violations of traffic rules, a patrol car can be placed in places with limited visibility

Traffic police check on the road: under what right?

WHEN A TRAFFIC OFFICER HAS THE RIGHT TO STOP A CAR: EVERYONE STAND UP! To check documents - a driver’s license, papers for the car, insurance, driver and passenger ID cards - the car can be stopped only at a stationary traffic police post.

Not mobile, but stationary - see paragraph 63 of the Administrative Regulations of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate (approved by order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs dated March 2, 2009).

No. 185). On the road, an inspector has the right to stop you only for the following reasons: if you have violated traffic rules, or there is information (for example, from other drivers) about a traffic violation, or the car is passing through one of the traffic police search bases.

The patrol is now visible

These are mandatory requirements for the safety of the inspectors themselves.

It is worth noting that traffic cops are allowed to hide from the driver’s gaze, provided that control is carried out by means of photographic and video recording of violations.

But this is under circumstances when visibility is limited by natural breaks in the terrain, turns and elements of the road network.

That is, hiding behind stops is allowed. During inspection, the inspector has the right to open the trunk, which may block the view of the car’s special paint and special signals, only if the device is installed in the trunk. And then only if this device operates in automatic mode.

If road control is carried out by a squad in a patrol car without special paint, then it cannot stop the offender.

Features of equipping a traffic police vehicle

Thanks to GNSS receivers, you can view the movement of a patrol car and know its geolocation with maximum accuracy.

The information obtained from the screenshot is enough to determine all the details of the offender. “Svet-Blik” devices Every car enthusiast knows about the ban on tinting car windows for some time.

Unfortunately, many still neglect this rule; for such drivers, special devices are installed in patrol cars that can measure the light transmittance of glass.

How should a traffic police car be positioned on the road?

movement, please take action.

Do not allow yourself to be switched (to the duty station, district police officer, gas service), tell all the information at once. At home, sit down at your computer and write here: http://ps.112.ru/portal/dt?PortalMainContainer.setSelected=DefAppeal&last=false&appealType=defence To the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Prosecutor's Office. Actions of employees entailing deliberate interference with the recognition by road users of a special color scheme, stationary devices for giving special sound and light signals of a patrol car are not allowed (except for cases of using special technical means for recording violations of traffic rules, operating in automatic mode, placed inside a patrol car with the luggage compartment panel open).

In the dark and in conditions of limited visibility, the employee must serve on illuminated sections of roads, have a luminous rod and reflective equipment.

Can traffic police hide in the bushes under the new Order No. 664?

If police activity is public, and the suppression of traffic violations is paramount, then the car must be clearly visible.

But it's not that simple! In order to ensure traffic supervision on emergency sections of the road, as well as in cases of traffic supervision using photo and video recording of violations of traffic rules, a patrol car can be placed in places with visibility limited by natural breaks in the terrain, turns roads, as well as elements of the road network. This is the second paragraph of the same point.

It follows from it that the traffic police can still hide in the bushes, according to Order No. 664 (more precisely, its regulations), but only under two certain conditions (one of any of them is met): traffic police hide the car when they are on duty only at emergency situations sections of the road, traffic violations are applied.

How should a traffic police inspector's car be parked on duty on a highway?

Unfortunately, the second document was labeled “For official use.” Video (click to play).

Therefore, it was not published anywhere in the public domain, and smart but unscrupulous inspectors took advantage of it. As a result, a person on the road could be stopped by someone unknown who had a glowing rod, and the consequences of this had to be dealt with by the criminal police. Amendments to the administrative regulations removed “inconsistencies”, the document included those items that were intended only for official use, and the very concept of hidden control fell into oblivion.

At night and in conditions of limited visibility, traffic police officers must serve on illuminated sections of the road and carry a luminous baton and reflective equipment. These are mandatory requirements for the safety of the inspectors themselves. During inspection, the inspector has the right to open the trunk, which may block the view of the car’s special paint and special signals, only if the device is installed in the trunk.

What is allowed to a traffic police inspector on the road: myths and reality

The inspector stops your car and talks about the signal received.

Say, a car similar to yours drove into oncoming traffic. Therefore, a check is being carried out. Such an inspector will look at the documents, turn his nose to the smell of alcohol, and if there is nothing to complain about, he will let you go. Others talk about some kind of special operations.