04/05/2017

First Ibero-American Congress on Road Safety and Education for Police Officers

The 1st CIPSEVI gathered Road Safety, Child Mobility and Road Safety Education leaders to analyze how to deal with one of the biggest problems in the XXI Century: road crashes.

The Fundación Gonzalo Rodríguez, through its Training and Institutional Relations Coordinator, Mathías Silva, made a presentation on “Training Enforcers from an Educational Role” on Panel I “Road Safety Education as a Strategy for Cultural Change”.

Silva explained the active role by the Fundación in the implementation of the Act requiring the use of Child Restraint Systems in private cars in Uruguay and highlighted the importance of Training as one of the main lines of action of the Fundación´s work.

In this sense, Silva described the experience of the Fundación in training enforcers from the National Traffic Police and inspectors from provincial governments. He also talked about training provided to the general public at the Check Up Point, a service free of charge on the correct installation of Child Restraint Systems.

Other presenters on the panel were: Violeta Manso Pérez, Traffic General Department; Jesús Monclús, Fundación Mapfre; Gabriela Rosende, Road Safety National Commission; Araceli González, Universidad Tecnológica Nacional (Argentina) and member of Traffic Psychology International; Bienvenido Nieto Gómez, President of the State Federation of Road Safety Technicians; and José Blas Valero Megías, Vice-President of the National Confederation of Driving Schools.

Apart from six panels, the Congress offered workshops on Road Education for children and Road Safety for adults, a “Road Show” for youngsters, driving demonstrations, and examples of airbag performance.