Official Interior Minister Kalin Stoyanov presented at a ceremony in Main Directorate “National Police“ the keys to 86 new high-speed cars, purchased with funds from the Road Safety Fund of the Ministry of the Interior.
They will be designed to ensure the work of the police officers performing traffic control on first-class roads with intense traffic. They are BMW 340i station wagons and are equipped with post terminals for on-the-spot payment of road fines by offenders.
During the ceremony, Minister Stoyanov highlighted the two leading priorities of the Ministry of Internal Affairs – dealing with illegal migration and the fight against road trauma. He noted that with regard to the first topic, the migrant pressure has been controlled, while work on the second is “extremely high priority”.
From his words, it became clear that since the beginning of the year, 47 fewer people died on the country's roads compared to the same period in 2023.
The Minister of Power emphasized that with the new high-speed cars of the “Road Police” another big step is taken towards victory in the battle with road traumatism.
To a journalist's question whether the Ministry of Interior can afford such cars, the maintenance of which is not cheap, Stoyanov replied that the ministry can afford them and “we should work with such cars”.