Koen Ricour

Belgian Federal Highway Police

Current TISPOL Council Member for Belgium

TISPOL President 2012 - 2014

TISPOL

Crossing Borders To Save Lives & Activities

on Road Policing

TISPOL VISION - “To be the Most Effective Police Road Safety

Network in the World.”

What is TISPOL?

The TISPOL Organisation was established in 1996 by the traffic police

forces of Europe in order to improve road safety and law enforcement on

the roads of Europe.

TISPOL currently has 30 European Traffic Police Service members

including the EU 28 MS, Norway, Switzerland. Serbia is an observer

country to TISPOL

TISPOL Corporate Video

Road Safety in Europe

•25,700 road deaths in 2014*

•500 road deaths per week

•199,000 reported seriously injured in road collisions*

•3,800 serious life changes injuries as result of road collisions per week

•18.7 billion € estimated value of reductions in road deaths in the EU28 2011-

2013*

•Fewer casualties means less trauma for citizens and saves money

•Need to consider the return on investment in road safety

•The potential gains are huge for road safety

*European Transport Safety Council

Road Policing Activities (RPA) Project IV

March 2015 - May 2016

STRIDER Project

‘Solutions To Reduce Serious Injuries and Death on European Roads’

March 2015 – February 2017

TISPOL WORKING WITH THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION

TISPOL Road Safety Project ‘STRIDER’ (Solutions To Reduce Injury and

Death on Europe's Roads) 2015-2017

•To reduce the number of people killed and seriously injured on Europe’s roads;

•To promote efficient cross border co-operation between Member States

concerning the enforcement of traffic rules and share good practice

•To carry out pan-European Enforcement operations with particular emphasis

on those offences identified in the Cross Border Enforcement Directive

•To communicate effectively with EU citizens to raise their awareness of road

safety related issues;

•Organise thematic road safety

seminars, and officer exchanges

to share ‘best enforcement practice’

TISPOL Co-ordinated Operations • Week long enforcement actions of different areas of Road Safety - Operation TRUCK ( X 3 per year) - BUS (X 3 per year) - SPEED (X 2 per year) - ALCOHOL & DRUG DRIVING (X 2 per year) - SEATBELT (X 2 per year) Results in TISPOL Operations 2015 • Over 400,000 trucks controlled, 125,000 offences detected • Over 70,000 buses controlled, 17,000 offences detected • Over 1.3 million speed offenders detected (includes 24 hour Speed Marathon

Operation) • Over 2 million drivers controlled for drink and drugs with over 30,000 offences • Almost 200,000 offences for non-wearing of seatbelts • In TISPOL 0perations 2015, European road police officers detected a crime every 5

minutes

TISPOL STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES IN OPERATIONS

•SAFE: enforcement is a key contributor to safer roads across Europe

•SECURE: operations lead to crime detections

•EFFECTIVE: good enforcement improves driver behaviour and prevents death

and injury

•EFFICIENT: smart partnerships promote safety and reduce crime

“TISPOL IS DEDICATED TO ENHANCING PUBLIC SAFETY AND

REDUCING FEAR AND CRIME AMONG THE COMMUNITIES OF

EUROPE...”

TISPOL Road Policing Operations

Operations TRIVIUM - interception of mobile organised criminal groups on road

• TISPOL Anglo-Dutch Operation TRIVIUM 22-28 June 2015

• TISPOL Nordic-Baltic Region Operation TRIVIUM 19-23 October 2015

• TISPOL Pan-European Operation TRIVIUM 23-29 November 2015

TISPOL Operation VOYAGER - crime controls of European cross-border, trans-

national bus passengers

• One day operation 29 May 2015

• 211 offences for Illegal Immigration, Human Trafficking, Drugs and Wanted

Persons

• In both operations there is close co-ordination and co-operation with EUROPOL

TRIVIUM

RESULTS

2015.

TISPOL Thematic, Technical and Educational Seminars & Conference 2015

• TISPOL Road Safety Conference, Riga, Latvia, April 2015

• TISPOL Alcohol & Drugs Driving Seminar, Bristol, UK May 2015

• TISPOL Road Policing Conference, Bristol, UK, May 2015

• TISPOL Enforcement and Technology Seminar, Selm, Germany, June 2015

• TISPOL International Road Safety Conference Manchester, UK October 2015

• TISPOL Road Policing Seminar October 2015 Neuss, Germany October 2015

TISPOL Communicates the Road Safety Message

• Press & Media

• Website www.tispol.org

• Fortnightly Bulletin (subscribe on website)

• Social Media -Twitter, Facebook

• Video

• Newsletters

EU Commission’s target of a 50% reduction by 2020

TISPOL aim is “Safe and Secure Roads all over Europe”

- Driver behaviour; Four killers and other raising threats

- Impact of Austerity on Resource allocation

- Road user categories - special attention

- Road Policing - reducing crime on the roads

TISPOL - Challenges for the future

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