Text file: 629.txt
author: Sinuhe
downvotes: 2
end consideration date: 2010-05-05
id: '629'
number comments: 6
number views: 5106
proposal type: Competent authority response
response: "Response from the Ministry of the Interior\nThe colours and insignia of\
  \ the police service vehicles are determined by the Regulation on Police Vehicles,\
  \ Vessels, Armament and Special Equipment (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia,\
  \ No. 45/06 and 32/07). Following the publication of the article \"Proposal for\
  \ a New Design of Police Vehicles\" (by Suzana Kundija and Igor Areh) at the end\
  \ of 2009 in the magazine Security (No. 4/2009), an analysis of this issue was carried\
  \ out on the basis of accident reports involving police vehicles, which did not\
  \ establish that the poor visibility of these vehicles was the cause of the accident.\
  \ Notwithstanding the above, we obtained an informative estimate for the design\
  \ and implementation of a new graphic image for police vehicles (lime yellow and\
  \ blue rectangles), which showed that this would make the vehicles more expensive\
  \ on average by about \u20AC400 to \u20AC600, depending on the size of the vehicle.\
  \ Replacing the existing graphics on all police vehicles would require additional\
  \ funding of approximately \u20AC 1,050,000. According to the dynamics of the new\
  \ vehicle procurement, the renewal of the white and blue police fleet is expected\
  \ to take 10 years, which means that the normal transition period of 5 years would\
  \ be too short.  If it were decided to switch to a new graphic design for police\
  \ vehicles, the provisions of the Regulation on vehicles, vessels, armaments and\
  \ special equipment of the police would first have to be amended, but the implementation\
  \ of the project is not possible in the current economic situation and due to the\
  \ major interference with the financial resources of the Ministry of the Interior."
response date: 2010-06-08
response due date: null
sent date: 2010-04-03
title: Changing the appearance of priority vehicles to improve road safety
upvotes: 19
url: https://predlagam.vladi.si/predlog/629
