Abbreviation GIBDD National agency
(Operations jurisdiction) RUS | Preceding agency GAI | |
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Motto Serve Russia, Serve the law Formed July 3, 1936; 80 years ago (1936-07-03) Legal personality Governmental: Government agency | ||
Main Directorate for Road Traffic Safety of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia (Russian: Главное управление по обеспечению безопасности дорожного движения МВД России, ГУ ОБДД), popularly known under its historical abbreviation GAI (ГАИ), is a law enforcement agency and the Russian Traffic Patrol. They are responsible for the regulation of traffic, investigating traffic accidents, and manning the stop lights.
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The Directorate is part of the Public Security Service of the MVD. The Directorate (abbraviated as GIBDD or GUOBDD) has patrol jurisdiction over all Russia highways.
History
The GAI (Russian: ГАИ; IPA: [ɡɐˈi]), short for State Automobile Inspectorate (Russian: Государственная Автомобильная Инспекция, tr. Gosudarstvennaya Avtomobilnaya Inspektsiya), was formed on July 3, 1936. The GAI was part of the NKVD and actively starts executing tasks: fighting accidents, developing technical standards of operation of vehicles, supervises the preparation and education of drivers. And also keep records of accidents, analyze their causes, accident attracts offenders to justice, manages the issuance of license plates, data sheets, search cars, hiding from the accident scene.
In 1961 it was merged with the Road Traffic Control Department.
After the dissolution of USSR, GAI was renamed GIBDD - Main Directorate for Road Traffic Safety.