Programme for police traffic enforcement and traffic safety for 2021–2030

The tasks of the police include ensuring for their part that the transport system operates as intended. The societal impact objectives of the traffic enforcement and safety work carried out by the police are: 1) reducing the number of traffic deaths and serious injuries as well as combating the grey economy in commercial transport, and 2) preventing, detecting and investigating traffic offences and offences uncovered in traffic and submitting them to con-sideration of charges as well as maintaining traffic safety.

The general objectives of the traffic enforcement and safety work carried out by the police are: 1) preventive, cooperative and fact-based traffic enforcement and safety work that supports the other goals of the police; 2) ensuring competence; 3) deploying technology efficiently; and 4) active and effective communication by the police.

The traffic enforcement and safety work of the police will aim to improve traffic safety and reduce societal harms. An effort will be made to achieve these objectives through impacts on the following areas, in particular: 1) driving health and alertness, 2) alcohol, drugs and medicines, 3) young people, 4) driving habits and driving speeds, 5) use of safety belts, child safety equipment and protective equipment, 6) distraction (technical devices, mobile devices, other activities), 7) pedestrians, cyclists and pedestrian crossings, 8) commercial transport, traffic crime and the grey economy in road traffic.