Intensification of the traffic police services of the State Police during the summer season

The State Police during the summer season ensures the safety of citizens on motorways and on the great national roads through the territorial articulations of the Traffic Police: 11.995 road surveillance patrols deployed in this first half of August.

In addition to having assisted road users in difficulty (in 6.390 cases), the Traffic Police intervened to ascertain 59.577 traffic offenses, of which 2.030 due to the failure or incorrect use of seat belts or restraint systems for children, 1.098 violations of the rules regarding the correct use of mobile phones or other devices with hands-free systems or with a headset, 655 violations for circulation on the motorway with a non-inspected vehicle.

12.443 drivers were subjected to checks on their psychophysical conditions (+ 12% compared to the same period in 2021), of which 427 tested positive and reported for driving under the influence of alcohol, while 42 drivers were reported for driving under the influence of narcotic substances.

Overall, 1.055 driving licenses and 1.302 registration papers were withdrawn (respectively + 23,1% and + 15,1% compared to last August), while 93.605 driving license points were reduced following complaints of traffic offenses.

In this period of summer exodus, the prevention activity of the Traffic Police was also intensified not only on the motorway but also on ordinary roads, through a complex device that also makes use of a Mobile Analysis Laboratory and the Azzurro Coach.

In addition to car and motorcycle patrols, supported from above by traffic monitoring aircraft, the Stradale carries out targeted services, in order to counteract driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol.

The policemen, in fact, use a mobile laboratory every weekend to work in close contact with a doctor and a biologist to intercept on the road those who got behind the wheel after taking drugs. In the event of a positive result of a quick test, the driver is made available to the health team and, in a few minutes, the laboratory issues the response, which will also be valid in the courtrooms, with an immediate deterrent effect.

The laboratory has already made a stop on Lake Garda, on the Romagna Riviera, in Jesolo, San Benedetto del Tronto, Monopoli, Gallipoli, on the Domitian coast and in Sorrento, but will also reach the Roman and Pontine coast, Versilia, the Meremma, the Riviera Ligurian and the Calabrian coast.

The Traffic Police in the same holiday resorts meet the citizens to spread the culture of safe driving through the blue bus. It is a traveling multimedia classroom through which a team of expert communicators lets visitors touch firsthand, through tests with driving simulators and other equipment, what it means to drive after drinking or taking drugs.

Even in the most frequented motorway service areas, the Traffic Police, with the Camper Azzurro and the presence of Lamborghini, meet travelers, together with Autostrade per l'Italia and ANPAS health workers, to raise awareness of the consequences that may derive from conduct of incorrect driving, proposing themed videos on belts, helmets, distraction, etc .; having the carpet and glasses that reproduce the state of alcohol intoxication and drug alteration are tried on; entertaining the little ones with interactive exercises and giving children and adults gadgets, including disposable alcohol-tests. Furthermore, in the same areas it is possible to carry out a "health check-up" for quick checks on physical conditions (eg blood pressure, body temperature, etc.).

Also in the next few days the Traffic Police will make use of:

  • 1.100 car patrols;
  • 100 motorcycle patrols;
  • 100 plainclothes PG patrols to control the service areas on the motorway;
  • 20 mobile offices;
  • 160 speed cameras;
  • 350 telelasers;
  • 500 breathalysers to check drivers;
  • 176 Topcrash-PS for the georeferenced planimetric survey of the road accident field;
  • 400 Police controller for reading heavy vehicle tachographs

Intensification of the traffic police services of the State Police during the summer season