How traffic police patrols choose places for their ‘ambush’ in the city
October 26, 2023
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On country roads, the places where traffic police crews like to “graze” when catching offending drivers, as a rule, are quite standard. And in urban conditions, the places
On country roads, the places where traffic police crews like to “graze” when catching offending drivers, as a rule, are quite standard. And in urban conditions, the places of such “ambushes” often change according to patterns that are sometimes difficult to calculate.
The principles by which city traffic police officers choose locations for their “pitfalls” are not very complicated. The goal pursued is not subtle: to be in a place and at a time where there is the greatest chance of encountering a drunk driver or an violator of a traffic violation, for which the Code of Administrative Offenses presupposes the deprivation of ‘rights’, or a place where it is useful to “filter” taxi drivers and car sharing drivers – for confusion in documents.
The most promising in this sense are a kind of “bottlenecks”: locations with fairly intensive traffic and no wide roadway. Microdistrict exits or local urban highways connecting adjacent areas are ideal for such purposes. For example, if a fairly large ‘dormant’ cluster can only be entered and exited along 3-4 routes, the police will most likely be stationed there in the morning, evening and at night – when there is a particularly good chance that there will be catching’ a drunk driver or someone else from traffic has not yet recovered from ‘yesterday’.
It happens that the district traffic police decide to organize a local mini-raid and a crew or even a few cars are stationed at each exit.
But more often they do not “harry” travelers everywhere at the same time, but in a “nomadic way.” That is, a few patrol cars will hang around at one point for half an hour or an hour, then at another, and so on. Rarely do they try to catch the full range of potential offenders in such cases.
More often, passersby can see several cars in the livery of car-sharing companies, or a group of taxis, or ‘jeeps’, etc., jammed around a police car at the same time. Everything is clear here: there is a raid. ongoing, either against specific categories of offenders or on a wanted basis. In such cases, for example, drivers with “exhaustion” after last night’s libation can relax – at this time the traffic police have no time for them.
Local drivers are usually well informed about such places. Therefore, the police are present at these points without a clear schedule, in order to maintain an element of surprise for the “potential customer”. After all, a person who is driving and feels that he has committed some sin before the law can involuntarily “tremble” at the sight of the police.
This could be, for example, by slowing down a little, giving a light tug on the steering wheel, or appearing in front of the police officer’s trained eye in some other similar way. After this, the inevitable wave of the striped wand occurs – “come here, darling!”
To achieve the same surprise effect, traffic police patrols are sometimes deployed in unexpected places. For example, in a street deep in the neighborhood, where motorists cannot see an “ambush” from a distance – behind a sharp bend or building. The task is still the same: “don’t be alarmed.” No less “cool” places are located near all kinds of major drinking and entertainment venues. Drivers who are drunk often leave them in the evening and at night – both while driving a personal car and while car sharing.
Another kind of nighttime “ambush” for drunk people is sometimes organized by the traffic police on large multi-lane interdistrict highways. In such places, 2-5 traffic police teams arrive at the same time and almost all passing cars begin to slow down. Such a ‘fine sieve’ sometimes produces a good catch of all kinds of traffic offenders – from non-payers of fines to drunken citizens and users of ‘left-wing’ car sharing accounts.
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The principles by which city traffic police officers choose locations for their “pitfalls” are not very complicated. The goal pursued is not subtle: to be in a place and at a time where there is the greatest chance of encountering a drunk driver or an violator of a traffic violation, for which the Code of Administrative Offenses presupposes the deprivation of ‘rights’, or a place where it is useful to “filter” taxi drivers and car sharing drivers – for confusion in documents.
The most promising in this sense are a kind of “bottlenecks”: locations with fairly intensive traffic and no wide roadway. Microdistrict exits or local urban highways connecting adjacent areas are ideal for such purposes. For example, if a fairly large ‘dormant’ cluster can only be entered and exited along 3-4 routes, the police will most likely be stationed there in the morning, evening and at night – when there is a particularly good chance that there will be catching’ a drunk driver or someone else from traffic has not yet recovered from ‘yesterday’.
It happens that the district traffic police decide to organize a local mini-raid and a crew or even a few cars are stationed at each exit.
But more often they do not “harry” travelers everywhere at the same time, but in a “nomadic way.” That is, a few patrol cars will hang around at one point for half an hour or an hour, then at another, and so on. Rarely do they try to catch the full range of potential offenders in such cases.
More often, passersby can see several cars in the livery of car-sharing companies, or a group of taxis, or ‘jeeps’, etc., jammed around a police car at the same time. Everything is clear here: there is a raid. ongoing, either against specific categories of offenders or on a wanted basis. In such cases, for example, drivers with “exhaustion” after last night’s libation can relax – at this time the traffic police have no time for them.
Local drivers are usually well informed about such places. Therefore, the police are present at these points without a clear schedule, in order to maintain an element of surprise for the “potential customer”. After all, a person who is driving and feels that he has committed some sin before the law can involuntarily “tremble” at the sight of the police.
This could be, for example, by slowing down a little, giving a light tug on the steering wheel, or appearing in front of the police officer’s trained eye in some other similar way. After this, the inevitable wave of the striped wand occurs – “come here, darling!”
To achieve the same surprise effect, traffic police patrols are sometimes deployed in unexpected places. For example, in a street deep in the neighborhood, where motorists cannot see an “ambush” from a distance – behind a sharp bend or building. The task is still the same: “don’t be alarmed.” No less “cool” places are located near all kinds of major drinking and entertainment venues. Drivers who are drunk often leave them in the evening and at night – both while driving a personal car and while car sharing.
Another kind of nighttime “ambush” for drunk people is sometimes organized by the traffic police on large multi-lane interdistrict highways. In such places, 2-5 traffic police teams arrive at the same time and almost all passing cars begin to slow down. Such a ‘fine sieve’ sometimes produces a good catch of all kinds of traffic offenders – from non-payers of fines to drunken citizens and users of ‘left-wing’ car sharing accounts.
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