Postimees Digest, Monday, March 4

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Nearly 500 novice drivers sent back to school and psychologist

Pursuant to Traffic Act entered into force in 2011, traffic offenders with provisional driving licences will have to get follow-up training and counselling by a psychologist. Last year, 479 people passed the training.

Traffic psychologists work in five Estonian towns: Tallinn, Tartu, Pärnu, Rakvere and Narva. In addition to novice offenders, psychologists also provide follow-up training to people caught driving drunk or under influence of narcotic drugs, as well as to people repeatedly disqualified from driving.

«Other follow-up trainers, as driving instructors with special preparation, may provide training to drivers with general risk behaviour tendencies disqualified from driving for the very first time,» explained Toivo Kangur, head of examinations department.

Interior minister seeks fresh winds in police headquarters

At Police and Border Guard Board headquarters management meetings, folks argue about who is important enough to park next to director general – a clear sign of stale air.

In quarrels about PBGB’s new director general, there is an important yet unnoticed argument why the new chief ought to come from outside the system. Indeed, interior minister Ken-Marti Vaher seems hard pressed to adequately evaluate the turmoil around candidates, but his zeal for fresh winds is – alas! – quite welcome.

The reason being pragmatically simple: headquarters are teeming with too many highly paid officials, whose tasks and usefulness is a mystery even to insiders. Therefore, letting some winds in seems vital.

Sadly, this is a task the minister can’t trust the current PBGB leadership to support. For they are tied in knots by long-time service and human relations. The best example of which was former PBGB chief Raivo Küüt himself – a friendly type of a boss who had trouble telling former comrades-in arms that, in all honesty, their input into the work is impossible to explain.

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