Polizia Stradale

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The Polizia Stradale is the national highway patrol of Italy and is a sub-directorate of the Italian State Police.

The Polizia Stradale patrols the 7,000 kilometres of motorways (autostrada) in Italy and the main highways and arterial roads outside towns. Missions include the prevention and detection of driving offences, traffic accident reporting, planning and carrying out services to regulate traffic, providing escorts for road safety, protecting and controlling the road network, rescue operations and cooperation in the collection of traffic flow data.

Between the several activities, it carries out also services of supply and regulation of the traffic. Under the profile of the communication verification the news on the practicability then comes diffuse from the Center coordination information on street emergency (Centro Addestramento Polizia di Stato) (C.C.I.S.S.). It also promotes the initiatives and campaigns of sensibilities of the citizens, in particular young people, on street emergencies.