Awareness and policing week with truck and bus road checks, which will run until Sunday, 19 June, is being carried out by the police, as part of actions to reduce road collisions and increase safety on the road network.
The week of actions will be carried out on a pan-European level, by the member countries of the European Police Roadpol Traffic Network, with the Cyprus Police actively participating in the whole effort, as a member of the European Police Network.
The focus of Roadpol's dedicated weekly action will be to raise awareness of the dangers caused by non-compliance with current legislation, as well as to intensify roadside checks on offences committed by truck and bus drivers.
The technical and mechanical fitness of trucks and buses, the validity of drivers' and vehicles' documents, speed limitation devices and tachographs, and compliance with driving and working hours by professional drivers, will be benchmarks for roadside checks, as will infringements which have been shown to be major factors in causing serious and fatal road collisions, such as speed limit violations and the use of mobile phones while driving.
Particular emphasis will be placed on policing dark and dangerous parts of the road network, where the chances of causing road collisions are particularly high.
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