Leitender Polizeidirektor Wolfgang Blindenbacher TISPOL President, TISPOL Council and TISPOL Executive Member Germany

Safety from the Law Enforcement Perspective

Wolfgang Blindenbacher (Germany) is the President of TISPOL. He represents the Ministry of the Interior of the country North Rhine-Westphalia where he is a Leading Police Director. The Presidency of TISPOL is changed on an annual basis and has been passed to Leitender Polizeidirektor Wolfgang Blindenbacher on 3 October 2008. The TISPOL 'European Traffic Police Network' Organisation was established in 2000 by the traffic police forces of Europe in order to improve road safety and law enforcement on the roads of Europe. The priority of TISPOL is to reduce the number of people being killed and seriously injured. TISPOL believes the enforcement of traffic law and education will make a significant contribution to reducing the carnage on our roads with close cooperation with the European Commission and other European road traffic and transport enforcement partners.

Jeanne Breen, OBE Jeanne Breen Consulting  

Jeanne Breen Consulting: Jeanne Breen is an internationally recognised expert on road safety policy with 30 years of national and international expertise and experience. She has carried out road safety management capacity reviews in Ukraine, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Bangladesh for the World Bank, in the Russian Federation for the ECMT and in New Zealand, commissioned by the Land Transport Safety Authority. During 2007, she led an independent peer review of road safety in Sweden commissioned by the Swedish Roads Administration. 

Jeanne Breen is currently working, in collaboration with Tony Bliss of the World Bank, on a new global good practice guide on institutional arrangements for road safety management. She is also a member of the Editorial Board of the web-based European Road Safety Observatory (ERSO), which is being developed by road safety experts for the European Commission, and has contributed a range of reviews for the ERSO's knowledge base. She was a member of the Advisory Panel which supported the first SUNflower comparative study of road safety in Sweden, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. Jeanne Breen was also the principal writer of the WHO/World Bank World Report on Road Traffic Injury (2004) and has also produced a teaching course on advocacy for injury prevention (TEACH VIP) for the WHO.

Previous to working as an independent consultant and with a background in road safety research, Jeanne Breen helped to establish and subsequently directed two successful independent non-governmental road safety organizations - the UK Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety (PACTS) and the European Transport Safety Council (ETSC). Both organizations are associated with the introduction of a range of evidence-based road safety measures in the UK (e.g. compulsory seat belt use and road humps) and Europe (improvements in car crash protection standards, increases in the transport safety budget and the developing EU road safety strategy). During her eleven years directing the European Transport Safety Council, she supervised the production of and contributed to over 20 international best practice reviews on key aspects of transport safety based on independent professional consensus in Europe.

Professor Dr Ahmad Farhan Mohd Sadullah, Director General, Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research

Professor Farhan has nearly 20 years working experience in transport and traffic engineering and also traffic safety in Malaysia and also internationally. He is currently the Director General of the Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research (MIROS). 

MIROS was established in January 2007 as Malaysia needs new approaches that are customized to the needs of the Malaysian scenario to not only reduce but also to prevent fatalities and casualties on its roads. Aligned with the aspiration to become a developed country, the government has set MIROS up in realization of the urgency of the alarming road statistics in Malaysia. 

MIROS has established three research centres. The Road User Behavioral Change Research Center tackles the human factors, the Vehicle Safety and Biomechanics Research Center is responsible for the factors that concern vehicles and the Road Engineering and Environmental Research Center is in charge of the environmental factors. The three research centers represent different components that are equally important in realizing the MIROS vision of becoming a world leader in road safety research and our mission of fostering the science and art of road safety interventions. 

Professor Farhan is a member of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE), the Road Engineering Association of Asia and Australasia (REAAA) and the Road Engineering Association of Malaysia (REAM). He was a Deputy Chairman for the ITS Technical Committee and a member of the Highway Planning Technical Committee for REAM. Prof Farhan is also a graduate member of the Institution of Engineers Malaysia (IEM), the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the Transportation Science Society of Malaysia (TSSM) and the East Asia Society for Transportation Science (EASTS). He has consecutively held the vice presidency and the deputy presidency of TSSM. In Malaysia, he is actively involved with the Committee on Strategic Plan for Intelligent Transport System (ITS) and also the Technical Committee for System Architecture for ITS. 

Prof Farhan has received international recognitions including the International Co-Operative Research Activity (ICRA) EASTS Research Award, the First Prize in the Young Engineers Prize Competition, from the Washington Society of Engineers and the USAINS Holding Industrious Award for Consultancy Work three years in a row. He has also won an ITEX Gold Medal. He has been involved in numerous international and