The General
Department of Traffic (GDT) is one of the public service departments
that are administratively and financially linked to the general
directorate of public security. It specialises in the area of traffic
and carries out many of its tasks.
These tasks are:
- Ensure that directives of the higher authorities are strictly followed by the branch administrations
- Issue circulations and directives in accordance with the traffic law and its amendments
- Undertake the authority's responsibility for traffic system related issues
- Register vehicles and issue driving licences
- Follow up systems and regulations of registering vehicles
- Supervise the 47 driving schools and evaluate their performance
- Supervise cars agents and showrooms
- Follow up systems of exporting and scraping cars, and keep records of these events
- Supervise, follow up, and issue licences for activities of passengers and luggage transportation
- Prepare estimated annual revenues of the General Administration of Traffic Control Police and the branch administrations
- Decide and collect fines imposed on violators of traffic regulations
- Work on preventing traffic accidents and handle accidents once they happen
- Prepare annual statistics on traffic accidents, violations of traffic laws, driving licences, and vehicle licences
- Supervise closely the sixteen points all over the Kingdom that check the safety and efficiency of vehicles
- Represent the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the GCC conferences concerning Traffic Control
- Cooperate with the Traffic Control Police administrations in the GCC countries
- Represent the Public Security in and out of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia concerning vehicles safety
- Prepare programs that help the public know and follow the traffic regulation and pay attention to safety instructions
- Liaise with the Ministry of Information to transmit the above mentioned programs
- Represent the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the local
and international conferences on Traffic Control, and exchange
experiences with similar administrations