ROADPOL Newsletter October 2023

Welcome To            

The October 2023  

ROADPOL Newsletter

 

 

Dear followers,

 

this edition is dedicated to the results of our flagship road safety awareness campaign the ROADPOL Safety Days. Once again we proved that with the joined effort of all road user groups and through comprehensible community approach and institutional backup road fatalities can be drastically reduced. But still once again we found out there is a lot more work to be done until the sacred ZERO is achieved.

 

Read on to find out also how the 2023 ROADPOL Conference and Exhibition in Sofia unravelled.

 

Next you can find out news on the latest regular ROADPOL management reshuffling. At our latest ROADPOL meeting in Sofia we bid farewell to colleagues who have given years of their efforts to ROADPOL and welcomed the advance of the next generation.

 

Also, you may see how the strength of ROADPOL increased with the accession of yet another member country.

 

ROADPOL has not let loose on its effort to achieve police access to the computers of the future automated vehicles for the sake of effective road crash investigations. Here you will find an interesting piece on this.
 

Enjoy your reading!

 

Yours Sincerely,

 

Sanja Veic

ROADPOL General Secretary

12 European countries registered ZERO road fatalities at the control day of the 2023 ROADPOL Safety Days campaign.

The news came after final completion of data received from 32 ROADPOL member countries of which 29 took active part in the European Roads Policing Network's flagship annual campaign. It was carried out in the week of 16-22 September with the goal of achieving the ZERO for at least one single day.

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ROADPOL Delivers

1st Conference and Expo

To Acclaim

 

The European Roads Policing Network delivered its 1st ROADPOL Conference and Exposition on September 27th in Sofia, Bulgaria to undisputed triumph.

The case marked the first time ROADPOL organized an event of this scale after its incorporation in 2019 with experience used from previous conferences held in past years by the predecessor network – TISPOL. The event was co-organized by ROADPOL and the host Bulgarian Ministry of Interior and was staged at the John Atanassov Innovation Forum Hall at the Sofia Tech Park Complex.

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Czech Pelešková Takes Helm

Of ROADPOL Operations

 

Chief Commissioner Jana Pelešková from Czech Republic is the new head of the ROADPOL Operational Working Group.

She was elected chairman of the body planning and overseeing the network's road safety enforcement activities at the recent ROADPOL OPG meeting held in Sofia, Bulgaria, on September 26th. Read more

ROADPOL Starting Western Balkan

Expansion With North Macedonia

 

ROADPOL started its long-awaited Western Balkan enlargement with the accession of North Macedonia to its ranks.

The news came after a fruitful meeting of representatives of the European Roads Policing Network and the national police service of North Macedonia at ROADPOL's recent meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria in September.

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ROADPOL Brings

Future Cars

Data Access Issue

To IACP Audience

 

ROADPOL brought its fight for allowing automated vehicle data access to police authorities to the audience of the International Association of Chiefs of Police.

Recently an article on the issue by ROADPOL ex-president Mr. Volker Orben was published in the latest edition of the IACP “Police Chief” magazine. Earlier this year together with the European Association for Accident Research and Analysis (EVU) and global leader in vehicle inspection DEKRA ROADPOL urgently called on the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen to act on specific legislation to grant data access to automated vehicles of the future for the sake of effective police road crash investigations. Read full article

 

 

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