A week-long ROADPOL enforcement campaign targeting drink- and drug-driving wraps up across Europe this evening, with Poland’s National Police confirming that more than 32 000 drivers were breath- or saliva-tested between 15 and 21 June. The coordinated operation, held three times a year, involves roadside spot-checks in all EU member states and several neighbouring countries. Travellers organising last-minute trips for business or leisure should also double-check entry formalities: VisaHQ (https://www.visahq.com/poland/) offers a fast, online service for Polish visas and other travel documents, letting companies and individuals handle paperwork well before stepping behind the wheel in a foreign country. In Poland, additional patrols were stationed on A2 and A4—the main transit corridors for international freight—as well as around Warsaw Chopin and Kraków Balice airports, where rental-car traffic spikes during the summer season. According to preliminary figures, 214 motorists were found over the national 0.2 ‰ blood-alcohol limit and 57 tested positive for narcotics, a slight decrease on last year’s June campaign. Foreign nationals accounted for roughly one in five violations, the Police Traffic Bureau said. For corporate mobility teams the crackdown is a reminder to brief business travellers and expatriate assignees on Poland’s strict drink-drive threshold—the second-lowest in the EU. Companies whose employees drive pool cars or hire vehicles can face liability if internal policies are not explicit about zero-tolerance rules. Some employers now add ROADPOL dates to their duty-of-care calendars and push safety notifications to staff phones the night before intensified checks. ROADPOL notes that enforcement alone is only part of the strategy: officers also distributed multilingual leaflets at motorway service stations explaining local limits and the risks of “morning-after” driving after corporate events. The federation plans to publish a full campaign report in July, which insurers often use when adjusting fleet-risk premiums. With summer tourist traffic building, Polish authorities say random sobriety checkpoints will remain frequent on Fridays and Sundays even after the official operation ends, particularly near border crossings where international coach services operate. Employers should therefore budget extra journey time for cross-border road trips and remind professional drivers to carry the paperwork required for roadside inspections.
