Stand control
A stand check is a permanent full or partial blockage of the police and other enforcement bodies (e.g. Federal Office for Goods Transport or Customs ) in order to subject road users to a vehicle control . It is a traffic control according to StVO .
purpose
Vehicles, vehicle drivers and their suitability and equipment, condition and load, etc. Ä. to be controlled. Another goal can be the prosecution of criminal offenses and administrative offenses. The driver's identity is verified. In the case of a suspicion-independent control according to police law, the vehicle, the occupants, the documents and the load are checked, among other things. A fixed road block is set up less often to check people, vehicles and objects carried. This is a control body in criminal proceedings , where the priority is to investigate criminal offenses. The BAG mainly controls vehicles and drivers. Another area of responsibility of the BAG, which also falls within the remit of the Federal Customs Administration , are controls under the Motorway Toll Act .
Furthermore, people and means of transport are stopped to carry out customs surveillance . Customs also controls vehicles in accordance with the Energy Tax Act (e.g. heating oil dieselization ).
For reasons of accident prevention, the places must be recognizable in good time (blue rotating beacons , pylons , warning signs, speed funnels ); In many federal states there are also two-person chase vehicles available. Vehicles to be checked are directed to a certain section of the road for the purpose of stopping either by means of technical ( stop signal generator ) or gestural instructions .
