TISPOL Bulletin, April 2018

TISPOL 2018 Road Safety Conference 

"Expanding our Horizons"

We are looking forward to seeing you at this year's TISPOL Conference, and we encourage you to secure your place as soon as possible.  

Do confirm your delegate booking before 30 April in order to benefit from the discounted rate.

You find out more, and make your booking RIGHT HERE.

The theme is 'Expanding our Horizons' - giving us the opportunity to discuss who are the right partners for long-term success in reducing death and serious injury on the roads of Europe. 

Speakers include:
CC Anthony Bangham, NPCC Roads Policing Lead
Chief Runar Karlsen, Norwegian National Mobile Police
Claire Smith, Scottish Government
Dr Rob Tunbridge, independent impairment expert
Professor Alan Tapp, University of the West of England
Emanuela Stocchi, International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association
Antonio Avenoso, ETSC
Paul Bennett, Motor Insurers' Bureau
Tomas Jonsson, Sweden
Dr Fiona Fylan, NDORS
Insp Steve Davies and Teresa Ciano, Go Safe

Once again the Conference will provide an excellent opportunity to showcase some innovative and effective work in road safety enforcement. This year we will also be presenting a special discussion and debate on the future direction for Project EDWARD, our 'European Day Without A Road Death'. 

We are aiming to ensure this year's event is broader and deeper in scope than any before, and we guarantee an interesting and varied line-up of speakers from police, policy-making and industry across Europe.

...so book your delegate or exhibitor place right now!

 

TISPOL Europe-wide 24-hour speed marathon: 19/20 April

POLICE OFFICERS across Europe are preparing for their latest "Speed Marathon", taking place from 0600 on Thursday 19 April to 0600 on Friday 20 April. The 24-hour initiative forms part of TISPOL’s week-long speed enforcement operation, running from Monday 16 to Sunday 22 April.

Full story and details >>

 

Roads Policing Seminar takes place in August

TISPOL's Ops Group is organising a roads policing seminar, which will be held in Germany at some point in August. Previous seminars have proved highly useful for those attending, so we invite TISPOL members to nominate representatives to attend.

For more information, please contact the Ops Group Chair, Volker Orben. 

 

A big 'thank you' to organisations who have signed up as sponsors and supporters for 2018:

Westcotec Ltd
Road Safety Support
The Centre for Vehicles, Croatia
Driving for Better Business
Insure the Box
Road Safety Authority, Ireland
Drive Smart and Sussex Safer Roads Partnership
GEM Motoring Assist
IAM RoadSmart
Vitronic

If you can help, or you know any organisations who you think may be willing to support us with this year's Project EDWARD, do make contact with us and we can provide all necessary information on the opportunities currently available. 

 

#ProjectEDWARD 2018 REMINDER

• Please sign this year's pledge
• Please follow @projectEDWARD on Twitter
• Put Wednesday 19 September in your diary, and make sure you do something amazing for road safety on that day!

We'll bring further Project EDWARD 2018 updates next time.

 

Norwegian winners of  President's Awards

Congratulations to Trond Sagbakken and Kenneth Rostveit, two Norwegian officers who have recently received TISPOL President's Awards for their outstanding contributions to roads policing.  

Trond and Kenneth have distinguished themselves by their exceptional skills that have a significant impact in reducing the number of fatal and serious collisions on Norwegian roads. Through their professional and dedicated work they have arrested more than 350 impaired drink and drugs drivers and other criminals.

While focusing on detecting drink/drug drivers, they have also seized many kilograms of drugs over the years. Despite receiving threats from criminals in their duty area, they have continued to work on preventing serious traffic accidents by arresting drug-impaired drivers.

TISPOL President Paolo Cestra congratulated the two officers during a ceremony in Oslo recently. "Both Trond and Kenneth have made enormous contributions to the safety and wellbeing of the communities they serve. We, along with their Norwegian colleagues, are very proud of their dedication and commitment," he said. 

 

Lithuania: results from seatbelt operation

For a week in mid March, Lithuanian traffic police officers carried out seatbelt checks across the country, as part of the TISPOL pan European seatbelt operation.

Officers detected 528 violations of the use of special seat belts and child seats. Last year, 525 such violations were recorded during similar preventive measures, 485 in 2015, and 655 in 2015. 

Vytautas Grasys, head of the Lithuanian Traffic Police Service, said individual responsibility was the key issue. "The use of a seat belt is not just a matter of personal self-determination, it is the responsibility of each driver and passenger. Let us take care and respect each other on the road," he told us. 

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Portugal: Easter figures reveal more collisions as fatalities soar

Six people died on Portugal’s roads over the Easter weekend, according to figures from the GNR. During a four-day Easter safety operation, the GNR registered 974 collisions, which caused six deaths, and 19 serious injuries.
The operation lasted 24 hours longer than last year, when the GNR registered 708 accidents and four deaths.

In related news, figures revealed last week by the national road safety authority ANSR showed more than 100 people have died on Portugal’s roads during the first three months of this year. In total, 115 fatalities have been registered on the roads, which is up 15 on the same period of last year.

 

France: make self-driving cars pass driving test, agency says

Self-driving cars could be required to pass a standard driving test before being allowed on the roads, safety agency La Sécurité Routière has said, as autonomous cars continue to be trialled across France.

Autonomous vehicles - cars that can effectively drive themselves and have an “autopilot” mode - are in the process of being trialled, after the government allowed the move in August 2016.

The agency says that should the vehicles become legal and more common, the cars themselves should be forced to pass a proper driving test before being allowed to take to the roads.

An agency spokesperson said: “We expect human drivers to learn and submit to the rules of the road. Why not require the same of cars?”

In the proposed test, the cars would be set to “autopilot” mode and be required to perform a normal driving examination, in the same way as if a human were driving. Manoeuvres, different driving speeds, parking, and navigation would all be under scrutiny.

 

UK: final figures for
#Dontstreamanddrive day, 3 April 2018