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2023
Hidden traffic police patrols are now required to record violators on camera
On July 11, 2023, an order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation entered into force, which obliges hidden traffic police patrols to record traffic violators on camera.
As the publication Autonews.ru explains, referring to this document, now to make an administrative decision, it is not enough to inform ordinary patrol cars about a violation from a hidden traffic police patrol, as it was before. The driver's guilt will need to be proved using a video recording with traffic violations.
Also, according to the new regulations, traffic police officers during hidden patrols on the roads will have to record any violations that contribute to the commission of an accident. During the observation process, inspectors will transmit information about violators to other patrols in cars with a color scheme. The latter, if necessary, will stop drivers.
At the same time, the car should be a patrol, that is, belonging to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and not some private one. Employees can be in civilian form. But they must interact with other outfits on machines with color schemes, which, if necessary, will stop violators.
Hidden patrols can detect any traffic violations. However, they pay special attention to driving into the oncoming lane and dangerous driving. Sanctions for the latter, however, did not appear in the Administrative Code. In July 2023, a State Duma bill was introduced with a proposal to punish for this in the amount of up to 10 thousand rubles or deprivation of rights for up to a year.
In addition, the procedure, which entered into force in July 2023, instructs employees, if possible, to carry out administrative actions in the field of view of video surveillance systems, as well as notify road users of their use in the implementation of these actions of photo, video or recording equipment.[1]
Public services notifications and payment of traffic police fines are now available on VKontakte
On January 18, 2023 Ministry of Digital Science , it announced that it is now pensions penalties TRAFFIC POLICE possible to receive reports of assigned payments and, the progress of enforcement proceedings or appointed ones through and. social network Vkontakte VK Messenger Alerts will come from. Public services
Another innovation: traffic police fines can be paid directly from the social network and without commission thanks to the fast payment system. Payment information will be downloaded automatically.
You can study the fine decree itself and see the photo of the violation in the personal account of the Public services.
How to set up alerts:
- In your profile, Public services go to the "Linked accounts" section. The account on the portal must be confirmed
- Opposite the VKontakte icon, click "Connect" or scan the code. The system will automatically redirect to the social network page
- Allow VKontakte to send notifications from the official page of State Public services
- Confirmation of connection will come by push notification from the Public services or from the official community Public services VKontakte
You can check the connection in the "Linked accounts" section of the Public services - it will display the social network account that you connected. Here, you can turn off these alerts.
Earlier in January 2023, banks began to test in pilot mode the forwarding of free notifications about financial transactions of customers on cards through VK Messenger instead of sending SMS messages and push notifications.
Alfa-Bank was the first of the banks to join the pilot of sending notifications to customers in VK Messenger. The service will expand the ability to receive notifications from the bank for customers. At the start of the project, customers began to receive messages about the readiness of a debit or credit card.
2022
The amount of road fines increased by 16.7% to 136.8 billion rubles
The amount of road fines in Russia in 2022 increased by 6.7% compared to 2021 and reached 136.8 billion rubles. The total number of orders for violation of traffic rules (SDA) during this time increased by 12%, to 201 million. This is evidenced by the data of the traffic police, published in February 2023.
More than 90% of all decisions in 2022 were made using cameras - 183.5 million (+ 14%) for 112.8 billion rubles (+ 8%). There are also more automatic complexes on the roads themselves, Kommersant writes.
Traffic police inspectors on the ground in 2022 issued a total of 16 million decisions, which is 7% more than a year ago. There were 530 thousand warnings, but for drunk drivers the statistics are the same as in 2021: 288.4 thousand such violators were caught. 166.4 thousand people refused to be examined (-2.7%). In a state of drug intoxication, 18.7 thousand Russians noticed while driving, which is 400 more than a year earlier.
Moscow became the leader in the number of violations committed, and the increase in the number of fines in the capital turned out to be higher than the national average. In 2022, 39.3 million decisions were issued here for 30.3 billion rubles - 23 and 27.8% more, respectively. Among the leaders in the number of fines are also named Moscow Region, St. Petersburg and Krasnodar Territory. Of these indicators, according to data from cameras in Moscow, almost 38 million fines for 28.4 billion rubles were issued, in the Moscow region - 30.2 million for 17.2 billion rubles.
The number of debtors for traffic police fines has also increased, follows from the data of the Federal Bailiff Service. According to materials received from the State Traffic Inspectorate, bailiffs opened 26.3 million enforcement proceedings per year (+ 12.8% by 2021). Executed in full (or partially) 24.5 million traffic police decisions, the total amount recovered amounted to 17.1 billion rubles[2]
The first seizure of a car in favor of the state for drunk driving in Russia
For the first time in Russia, a car was seized from the driver in favor of the state for drunk driving. The precedent that took place in the Krasnoyarsk Territory was reported in the regional Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in early November 2022.
According to the ministry, in July 2022, traffic police officers drew attention to "VAZ-2114" without numbers. The driver ignored the demand to stop, during the chase he ran out of the car and tried to escape, but was detained by traffic inspectors. It turned out that the driver was drunk, and in May of this year he was already involved in driving while drunk. A criminal case was opened against the driver under Article 264.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. In September 2022, the Uyarsky District Court sentenced a 26-year-old man.
The court sentenced the offender to 360 hours of compulsory work with deprivation of the right to engage in vehicle management activities for a period of 2.5 years. In addition, for the first time in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, a new norm of legislation was implemented - a car by a court decision was confiscated as state revenue, the Ministry of Internal Affairs said.
On July 25, 2022, amendments came into force that allow the seizure of vehicles of violators of the Traffic Rules in favor of the state. The sanction will be applied as a punishment for repeated red light passes, oncoming lane exits and driving with forged numbers. Criminal prosecution and confiscation of the car await violators who previously neglected the rules and were deprived of their rights for this.
The amendments were criticized by a number of deputies and experts. Deputy Alexei Kurinny (Communist Party of the Russian Federation) said that in nine out of ten cases, citizens deprived of a license for drunk driving or other violations get behind the wheel of someone else's car. The lawyer of the Freedom of Choice movement, Sergei Radko, insisted that it is impossible to apply confiscation of a car for entering the oncoming lane, because inspectors often see a violation even in a small touch of a solid lane with one wheel.[3]
2021
Putin instructed to introduce fines for motorists on photos from a smartphone
In mid-November 2021, the president Russia Vladimir Putin instructed to Government of the Russian Federation introduce fines for motorists based on photos and videos taken using special mobile applications.
The order, which was Putin following a meeting of the Presidium of the State Council, states that the materials of photo and video filming should be obtained without the possibility of adjusting them. Laws should allow the imposition of administrative penalties on the basis of such materials from the appendices without drawing up a protocol on an administrative offense, indicated in the text of the order. Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has been appointed responsible, the deadline is June 1, 2022.
Earlier, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation refused to consider the phone a means of automatically fixing offenses and considered illegal fines for traffic violations made on the basis of photographs and videos from the phone. The court ruled that only photos or videos taken with cameras mounted stationary or on a vehicle can be considered evidence of the driver's guilt.
It was about the Moscow Assistant application, with the help of which any person registered on the public services portal can complain about a violation of parking rules - for this you need to take a photo of the offender's car and send it using the application.
It is assumed that the new mobile application will be, in fact, the federal version of the Moscow Assistant program. To file a complaint against the offender, it will be necessary to photograph the offender's car and send a picture with geolocation and time using the application. After that, these data will be checked and on the basis of this, a decision was made on a fine for the owner of the vehicle.[4]
Due to the failure of the traffic police IT system, motorists in Moscow have not received fines for a month
As it became known on June 23, 2021, due to a failure of the traffic police IT system, motorists in Moscow have not received fines for violating traffic rules for a month. Read more here.
2020: Recovery of 14.5 billion rubles of unpaid car fines from Russians - FSSP
Bailiffs for 2020 collected 14.5 billion rubles of unpaid car fines from Russians. In total, employees of the Federal Bailiff Service (FSSP) opened 24.8 million enforcement proceedings to collect traffic police fines, and the number of cases for which enforcement was enforced was 18.4 million. This is evidenced by the data of the FSSP.
According to the statistics of the department, every month in Russia 200 thousand enforcement proceedings are initiated to collect fines from drivers, while it is possible to collect 75% of the fines that motorists "forgot" to pay.
The FSSP noted that some offenders deliberately do not pay fines, trying to evade responsibility. In such cases, bailiffs use coercive measures, primarily to arrest debtors' cars.
The press service of the department also reported that street surveillance cameras are used to search for car owners who have accumulated many fines for traffic violations. The use of video recording cameras allows you to track the routes of movement of the debtor's car, as well as its parking place in the event that city cameras are installed at train stations, shopping centers, etc.
 | The location of the vehicle can be tracked through photo and video recording tools, as well as regional law enforcement information systems (segments of the Safe City hardware and software complex), the FSSP reported on February 5, 2021. |  |
It is also noted that the bailiffs are conducting joint raids with the traffic police to establish the location of the debtors' cars. So, in Moscow alone, at the end of 2020, more than 1.2 thousand such cars were installed, of which more than 300 were parked at night.[5]
Notes
- ↑ Since July 11, hidden patrols have ordered to record violators on camera
- ↑ Russian motorists took a new penalty line
- ↑ For the first time in Russia, a car was seized from the driver in favor of the state for drunk driving
- ↑ List of instructions following the meeting of the Presidium of the State Council
- ↑ In 2020, 14.5 billion rubles of administrative fines of the traffic police were collected
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