Traffic police - detector test

Baku/04.24.19/Turan: On April 23, 2019, at 6.30 pm on the Zagulba-Baku highway at the Zugulba-Mardakyan junction, with a patrol of a vehicle of the State Road Service no. 388 the car of director of the Turan news agency, Mehman Aliyev, was detained. The car was driven by driver based on power of attorney. He told Aliyev on the phone that the police officer classified the radar detector mounted on the car as an anti-radar detector, and therefore he withdrew the device, took the power of attorney and demanded to deliver the car to the penalty area with a subsequent payment of a 500 manat fine.

In a telephone conversation with the police officer, Aliyev explained to him that this was not a radar detector, but a radar detector, the use of which is not prohibited by law. The fact is that this device was produced and used at the time when there were no smartphones. Today, all smartphones and jackets have the ability to use a radar detector, and many use it freely.

Vagif Asadov, head of the Public Relations Department of the General Directorate of the State Traffic Police of Baku, who was informed about the illegal actions of the police, was powerless to stop arbitrariness. As a result, the radar detector was removed; the power of attorney was selected. The driver was told to arrive in the room number 9 of the Main Traffic Police Department of Baku.

Responding questions from Turan, Fazil Mammadov, chair of the Association for Assistance in Education of Drivers, confirmed the truth that radar detectors in Azerbaijan are allowed to use and said that if the traffic police claims about the harmful effects of the device on its radars, it must prove it.

Commenting on the actions of police officer, he said that the traffic police officer does not have the right not only to withdraw something belonging to the driver from the salon, but he does not even have the right to touch the car, to demand that the hood or the doors be opened. "Such requirements may come in the case of inspection, and this is a completely different legal situation with the need to involve two witnesses, etc."

F.Mammadov regarded the actions of a police officer who has withdrawn a radar detector is illegal. "In such cases, citizens should call the telephone number of the Ministry of Internal Affairs 102 and report on the lawlessness applied to them. The owner of the radar detector has the right to prevent the seizure of property belonging to him. Then the police officer can call a post-patrol car and declare that the driver has malicious resistance to the lawful demands of the police. However, this action is illegal and may be appealed by a citizen. It is necessary to call 102 and declare that the police violate the law by taking away the property of a citizen," the expert added.

All police actions must be logged. If the police officer did not document his actions, did not issue a document of exemption to the driver, then he violated the law and after the citizen"s complaint can be punished," Mammadov explained to Turan.

The Article 342.9 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Republic of Azerbaijan prohibits the use of anti-radars and similar means interfering with the operation of radars and preventing them from recording the speed of the vehicle.

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How does the radar detector work?

The radar detector warns in advance about the radar and calls to adhere to the speed set on the road. The radar detector, in fact, only collects data on emissions and reports them to the driver.

How does the anti-radar detector work?

The anti-radar signal jamming the signal of the police radar - due to interference, they cannot determine how fast the intruder moves. Such devices are prohibited. If a radar detector is noticed in the car, it will be confiscated, and the driver will be fined.

"I have been using the radar detector for more than 10 years, and it helps me not to exceed the speed on the track," said Aliyev. That is, the use of a radar detector are prophylactic in nature and prevent violations. "Therefore, I believe that it is necessary to encourage the use of such systems to reduce statistics on traffic violations and emergency situations," he said.

Aliyev hopes that the traffic police will draw the right conclusions to prevent such illiterate actions of individual police officers and will encourage the use of technical means to help prevent traffic offenses.