ROADPOL Newsletter December 2022

Welcome To            

The December 2022  ROADPOL Newsletter

 

 

Dear road safety fans,

 

our new General Secretary Mrs. Sanja Veic is the star of the current edition so that's why the exception of me presenting it to you. Following you can read an extensive interview in which she shares her vision on the future of our network.

 

ROADPOL is always striving to be at the pinnacle of road safety debate in Europe. So herein you can find out what our chief operational guru Marijke Eskes told the latest EU Results Conference where she was a keynote speaker.

 

Also, you may learn more about a partnership ROADPOL stroke with the Italian unit of the World Road Organization (PIARC).

 

Further on we have prepared a piece on a study which found out concerning facts about truck driver usage of phone while driving.

 

Herein there is also some news on a new roadside drug test which is being introduced.

 

Last not least, take a look at what Christmas surprise our colleagues in Estonia have prepared for road offenders.

 

Enjoy your reading and have a safe holiday season.

 

Yours Sincerely,

 

Elvira Zsinkai

 

President of ROADPOL

 

It's been three months since Croatian police professional Sanja Veic (left) took office as ROADPOL General Secretary.

Mrs. Veic has taken active part in ROADPOL's development for more than a decade before taking the role of a chief executive representative of the association along with President Elvira Zsinkai (center) and Vice President Federica Deledda (right). ROADPOL Media caught up with Mrs. Veic to find out more about her feelings on the new position, her vision for the organization and her immediate plans. Read more

ROADPOL Operations Chief Briefing EU On

Truck & Bus

Challenges

 

 

Truck and Bus enforcement challenges were the centre of ROADPOL Operational Working Group Chief Marijke Eskes address at the 2022 EU Road Safety Results Conference, held on December 8th in Brussels. Read more

ROADPOL Joining Hands With PIARC Italy

 

ROADPOL and the Italian unit of the World Road Association (PIARC) join efforts to tackle road safety challenges.
The future cooperation between the European Roads Policing Network and PIARC Italy was sealed as a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed at the recent “Road Safety: Zero Fatalities” conference held in Rome, Italy.

Read more

 Truck Drivers

Using Phone

9% Of Time

On The Wheel

 

A small-scale observational study in France has found that truck drivers spent an average of 9% of driving time using their mobile phone, the European Transport Safety Council announced. Read more

New Drug Test

To Detect Meth

 

A new preliminary drug driving testing device, which can test for a greater range of drugs at the roadside is being under development potentially promising to enhance drug driving enforcement across Europe. Read more

 

Estonian Police

Sending

Black Greetings To

Heavy Offenders

 

Christmas cards will soon start arriving in the mailbox of the heaviest traffic offenders in Estonia, the country's Police and Border Protection Agency informed.

551 black Christmas cards are to be sent to those drivers who have committed four or more traffic offenses through the past year. Read more

 

 

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