Regulations on stopping traffic for control in Vietnam

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1. Regulations on stopping traffic for control in Vietnam

Article 16 of Circular 65/2020/TT-BCA stipulates stopping traffic for control in Vietnam as follows:

- Traffic police performing patrol and control tasks according to the plan may stop traffic for control in the following cases:

+ Directly detecting or through professional technical means and equipment detect and record violations of the law on road traffic and other violations of the law;

+ Carrying out orders and plans on general control of road vehicles, plans on patrolling, controlling, and handling violations according to thematic categories approved by competent authorities;

+ There is a written request from the investigating agency's head or deputy head; a written request from the relevant functional agency on stopping the means of traffic for control in the service of ensuring security and order and combating crime and other illegal acts.

The written request must specify the time, route, and means of traffic to be stopped for control, handling, and forces participating in coordination;

+ Information, reflections, recommendations, and denunciations of organizations and individuals about the illegal acts of people and vehicles participating in road traffic.

The means of stopping and controlling traffic must satisfy the following requirements:

+ In accordance with the law, safe does not obstruct traffic activities.When the vehicle has stopped, it must control and handle violations (if any) in accordance with law;

+ When stopping and controlling at one point, at the Traffic Police Station, the requirements specified at Point a, Clause 2, Article 16 of Circular 65/2020/TT-BCA must be met, as well as the following requirements:

++ Set up barricades with cone-shaped stakes or tensioned ropes along the road in the road part, lane close to the curb, or sidewalk to form an area to ensure traffic order and safety according to the regulations of the Ministry of Public Security on the implementation of democracy in the work of ensuring traffic order and safety.

++ The minimum length of the barrier section is 100m for expressways, 50m for national highways, and 30m for provincial roads, district roads, urban roads, communal roads, and special-use roads;

++ The area ensuring traffic order and safety must comply with the provisions of the law on road traffic and other relevant laws; sufficient area to arrange and install technical and professional means and equipment, control and handle violating traffic means; arrange traffic police to guide, regulate traffic, and ensure traffic safety.

++ The case of control on the highway, the sign No. 245a "Go slowly" or sign No. 245b (for external routes) must be placed in front of the Traffic Police Team in the direction of the traffic to be controlled in accordance with the law on road signs;

+ When stopping and controlling traffic on expressways, the following requirements must be met:

++ When controlling at a point, only vehicles can be stopped to control and handle violations at the following locations: Tollgate area, starting point, end point of highway;

++ When patrolling, maneuver control is only allowed to stop vehicles entering the emergency vehicle stop lane to control and handle violations in the following cases:

Detecting serious violations of traffic order and safety, the risk of causing immediate traffic insecurity; coordinating the fight against crime; reporting and denouncing the illegal acts of people and vehicles traveling on highways;

Detecting traffic stopping or parking improperly on the highway. When the case is solved, it is necessary to clean up the stakes, tension lines, and signs and move immediately.

2. Regulations on order to stop traffic for control in Vietnam

Article 17 of Circular 65/2020/TT-BCA stipulates the order to stop traffic for control as follows:

- Traffic police's traffic stop signal shall be made through one of the following signals or a combination of the following signals simultaneously:

+ Traffic command sticks, horns, loudspeakers, priority signals of patrolling and controlling vehicles;

+ Other signals as prescribed by law, including: Signboards, posts, fences.

- Signaling to stop traffic when controlling at the Traffic Police Station or at a point on the road:

+ The traffic police chooses an appropriate position, stands strictly, and faces the traffic to be controlled;

Signaling the order to stop traffic at a safe distance; The right hand holds the traffic command stick and points it at the vehicle to be controlled, and at the same time blows the whistle decisively, instructing the driver of the vehicle to be controlled to stop in the appropriate position for control;

+ When receiving the signal, the vehicle operator must slow down and stop the vehicle in position according to the instructions of the Traffic Police.

- Signals to stop traffic while sitting on patrol and maneuvering control vehicles

+ In case the patrol and control vehicle go in the same direction and are in front of the vehicle to be controlled.

The traffic policeman holds a stick to command the traffic to move to the right or left side of the patrolling and controlling vehicle (depending on the part of the road or lane where the traffic to be controlled is in circulation), then raises the stick vertically, perpendicular to the ground;

Using loudspeakers, broadcast priority signals of traffic means to patrol and control, and guide drivers of traffic vehicles to be controlled to stop at a suitable position for control;

When receiving the signal, the vehicle operator must slow down and stop the vehicle in position according to the instructions of the Traffic Police;

+ In case the patrol and control vehicle goes in the same direction and is behind the vehicle to be controlled

Traffic police use loudspeakers to broadcast priority signals for patrolling and controlling vehicles; instruct the driver of the vehicle to be controlled to stop at a suitable position for control;

When receiving the signal, the vehicle operator must slow down and stop the vehicle in accordance with the instructions of the Traffic Police.

Le Truong Quoc Dat

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