Why is the Maintenance Center intended for 2,000 cars per day empty?

Baku/22.06.20/Turan:After May 18, when the quarantine right to leave the house by SMS permissions was canceled, Kamran Aliyev, the head of the public relations department of the Main Directorate of the Road Police of the Ministry of the Interior, invited drivers to inspect their cars. “The cost of inspection (state duty) is 30 manat,” K. Aliyev explained. The administrative penalty for not passing inspection is 50 manat for individuals, 100 manat for officials and 300 manat for legal entities. If the driver is fined, he is obliged to conduct vehicle inspection within 10 days, during which time he cannot be fined again.

These are the rules for passing the Maintenance Center adopted in January 2019. Then, a Turan correspondent, having visited the Technical Inspection Center of the Main Directorate of the State Road Police of the Ministry of Internal Affairscalculated and it turned out that despite 15 production lines, this center is empty, you can see no more than five cars at a time. Employees at the center said that the vast majority of car owners acquire evidence of having passed the Maintenance Center illegally, without appearing at the Center.

In the online forum Disput.az, car owners report that the cost of such a “left” service has increased from 60 to 170 manat. Other forum participants report a lack of extortion at the Center. The work is carried out according to the new rules: cars with identified shortcomings, and this, along with others, always a malfunction of the light-optical devices of the machine, can leave the Center and correct the discovered defect in any workshop. It is mandatory that the car has a first-aid kit, an emergency reflector and a fire extinguisher, the shelf life of drugs and a fire extinguisher should not be expired.

Great progress in comparison with the open extortion of bribes, which remembered drivers with a substantial experience in the Maintenance Center in Azerbaijan, again with domestic "zest". Car owner Ahmed Nasibov described in detail the strange procedure usual at the Maintenance Center.

Specialists inspected his car, showed a polite attitude to the driver without unnecessary conversations. They issued a piece of paper printed by the device listing the results of the maintenance; and the torment begins. The driver goes to the hall where there are six workers and a cashier. The girl sent Ahmed to the second window. There, another entered the car data into the computer and handed the owner a printed document; sent him to the Room 12, to the police captain.

The officer did not accept the document, but sent the driver to the cash desk, where they demanded 30 manat and 40 qepiks. Payment by bank transfer is not accepted. They do not have a POS terminal. The payment receipt says that Turan Bank manages money transactions here. 40 qepiks went to his treasury. Why does this bank oppose the generally accepted rule of cashless payments?

The cashier sent his back to Room 12. The officer accepted the check and sent the citizen to window six. The girl in the window 6 entered the data into the computer, returned the documents and again sent the client to Room 12.

The officer in the Room 12 sent Ahmed to window 4. Nasibov nervously asked the girl in the window 6 why could not she sent the data immediately to the window 4. Why did they send him to different windows, as if he is a child?

"The question is not for me, we have been given such an order," said the girl in the window 6.  Then he again I had to go to the fourth window, in which the girl filled in the citizen's data in her was sent to window 4, and then to Room 12.

The police captain asked why the citizen was making noise. Asking the question of Ahmed whether there is a computer network in the Center, why the data is entered by different girls, why the state’s policy on minimizing meetings of officials with citizens is not respected here, and the officer said that there was a network, but the rules in the Center are not set by them.

The captain, seeing the visitor’s nervous state, allowed him to leave the Center. It turned out that Nasibov had to stand in line for another, special office. The kind captain said that they would send Ahmed’s documents there themselves, and he should not worry. Apparently, they do not send nervous citizens to the “special cabinet”.

Ahmed Nasibov left the Center, and sent his appeal to the Ministry of Internal Affairs asking about the reason for what is happening at the Maintenance Center and the absence of the Single Window principle there.

Now it is clear why most drivers prefer to give the illegal intermediary more money, but not run between the windows and the officer, and this provided that their cars have successfully passed the technical check.

The technical center, intended for 2000 inspections per day, equipped with modern equipment, continues to be empty. Is not it better to go along the path of facilitating the maintenance procedure, borrowing the practice of developed countries, where car maintenance can be done at numerous private police-certified repair centers.

Turan correspondent called to Kamran Aliyev to ask him the same questions that Ahmed Nasibov had sent. K. Aliyev, who is responsible for public relations, does not pick up the phone indicated on the website of his department.-0--