PolDrive System in Support of Implementation of Tasks Performed by the Polish Police

Abstract

n every country, the government strives to ensure that police forces are professionally prepared to carry out their tasks. This concerns equipping police officers with certain knowledge and skills, as well as supporting their performance with the most advanced technologies. One of the most important areas of safety where police have to be professionally prepared is road traffic safety. Appreciating their role, traffic police constitute a separate force in many countries. In Poland, this force is included in the uniformed branch, although its tasks do not differ from the tasks of other forces of this type worldwide. In 2015, the National Police Chief confirmed that it is necessary to support safety in traffic with the help of science. It was demonstrated through accepting the R&D project Development of an Assistance System for Psychological Testing of Police Drivers, no. DOB-BIO7/20/01/2015, realised in a science consortium funded by the National Centre for Research and Development in the amount of PLN 5 546,452.00 in a 7/2014 competition for the realisation of R&D projects in aid of the defence and security of the country. The system developed within the project is designed to serve research concerning subordinate forces, and those supervised by the Minister for Internal Affairs. The aim of this article is to present the existing results of the research related to creating an assistance system for psychological testing of police drivers, including the drivers of police emergency vehicles, in compliance with the current legislation in force in Poland. The system will be implemented as an IT network-based technology that enables direct cooperation with the Police Data Transmission Network (PSTD) (a central server, available from any PSTD-accessible workstation), which is a database designed to independently and safely acquire and store data. The system should allow research without the necessity of using additional equipment other than a properly configured computer. Simultaneously, the system is planned to include a device that calibrates the methodology of measuring driver reaction times. The system should allow for an assessment of intellectual fitness, psychomotor efficiency, and personality.