Main Directorate for Traffic Safety

The Main Directorate for Traffic Safety of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia (), popularly known under its historical abbreviation GAI (ГАИ), is a law enforcement agency and the Russian Traffic Patrol. They are responsible for the regulation of traffic, investigating traffic accidents, and manning the stop lights.
The Administration is part of the Public Security Service of the MVD. The Administration (abbreviated as GIBDD or GUOBDD) has patrol jurisdiction over all Russian highways and roads.
History.
The GAI (), short for "State Automobile Inspectorate" (), was formed on July 3, 1936. The GAI was part of the NKVD and actively starts executing tasks: fighting accidents, developing technical standards of operation of vehicles, supervises the preparation and education of drivers. And also keep records of accidents, analyze their causes, accident attracts offenders to justice, manages the issuance of license plates, data sheets, search cars, hiding from the accident scene.
In 1961 it was merged with the Road Traffic Control Department.
During the Guerilla phase of the Second Chechen war, as well as during the Insurgency in the North Caucasus, traffic safety officers were regularly targeted by Pro-Ichkerian, and later Jihadist insurgents. They made up a large portion of the law enforcement and Russian government casualties, in addition to FSB, MVD, and ГУОООП members who were assassinated or otherwise killed in action.
After the dissolution of USSR, GAI was renamed GIBDD - General Administration for Traffic Safety. There were rumors from March 2017 that the GIBDD is about to be dissolved until December 2018, as part of Russian police reform and will merged into the patrol service of the police. The Minister of Internal Affairs denied those rumors.
Structure and organisation.
Roads Patrol Service (Дорожно-патрульная служба)