Avtozak is a car for transporting suspects and accused. Special vehicle based on a truck, bus or minibus

2024 Author: Erin Ralphs | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-19 11:42

The car is one of the most versatile vehicles. It can serve as a personal carrier and a cargo carrier, perform specific tasks, be a company car. Against the background of all of the above, it is quite interesting to get to know one of the special purposes of this vehicle: to find out that it is a paddy wagon. Let's move on to the definition of the concept.

Avtozak is…

According to dictionaries, the hero of our story can be considered all the machines that were defined under the Soviet regime as "funnel" (emphasis on the last syllable). Avtozak - a car for transporting suspects and accused. This is a word formation from "auto", "car" and "prisoner".

Avtozak is considered a specialized transport, whose basis is a bus, minibus, truck. Its task is to transport a special contingent (accused and suspected). At the same time, the standard design of the vehicle was redesigned in such a way that it is not possible to violate the established regime of detention. In particular,escape.

Features of Russian (Soviet) paddy wagons

In our country, a paddy wagon is a combination of two components:

• Standard (without modification) truck chassis - KamAZ, ZIL, Ural, GAZ, MAZ or PAZ, GAZelle buses.
• The body where the security engineering elements are located.

The equipment of such vehicles is usually as follows:

• Special body.
• Means of communication.
• Lighting fixtures.
• Means of notification.

The design of such a GAZ machine (or any other from the list above) should provide the following:

• The line of protection from all sides in the working cabin.
• Strictly separate placement of special contingent in cells according to the type of regime. Here, much attention is paid to the points prescribed in the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation, the Code of Administrative Offenses, the Criminal Code.

Accordingly, to ensure compliance with these conditions, a special body is installed on the truck chassis. It is already equipped with a salon for staff and special departments for suspects and convicts.

Special body

Spetskuzov paddy wagon is an all-metal frame structure that has a heat-insulating layer between the outer and inner walls. Both of these skins are usually sheet steel with a thickness of at least 0.8 mm.

To the frame of the chassis of a truck or bus, special bodies are attached with standard fasteners. In terms of material, quality, design, they are similar to the elements that fasten the usualside body.

The floor must be wrapped around with a sheet of iron, overlapping it on its sides. The basis - from steel profiles, welded. Cells between them - no more than 300 x 300 mm. All of this adds up to form an anti-shoot base grid.

Chambers for convicts

Chambers for the special contingent in such GAZ vehicles can be both common and single. Traditionally, they are equipped behind the working cabin, in the rear half of the body. The number and location depends on both the brand of the vehicle and its purpose.

The seats in the cells are stationary, hard, with separate backs, mounted on a metal frame. Their design is such that without the use of special tools it is impossible to unscrew the fasteners.

If the camera in a special car is single, it will be equipped with a sliding or hinged metal frame door. The canvas of the latter is solid. There is a peephole with a swivel cap. Ventilation holes in the top and bottom half.

Common cells usually have single-leaf lattice swing doors. Between steel bars of a cell 40 x 40 mm.

On the doors of the cells there are mechanical locks with an auto-closing bolt. The impossibility of access to it from the inside is provided constructively. There is also a lock on the front door.

On the hatch - constipation type "pin". The dimensions of its opening are 470 x 500 mm. Withstands an upward extrusion force of up to 5 tons, while not deforming and without losing performance. Escape hatches only openoutside, emergency ventilation - outside and inside.

Staff Salon

The room for the guard is standardly placed in the front of the car and the working compartment, respectively. Semi-soft chairs with separate backs are installed in the compartment. Seats in the "GAZ" paddy wagon can be of various designs:

• single folding;
• single landline;
• many.

As for the entrance doors to this salon, they can be both folding and sliding. The minimum dimensions of the opening are 1540 x 580 mm (for paddy wagons). If this is a car based on a van or bus, everything depends on its design features. Opening stops are required on doors.

Windows - with sliding glazing. From the inside - a protective lattice. Between it and the glass is a sliding curtain.

Alarm

To ensure communication between the paddy wagon and stationary points, the cars are equipped with VHF radios. CCTV systems can be installed.

The "Forget-Me-Not" intercom is installed as standard. It provides the following:

• Two-way communication between cab and body.
• Manual two-way "Call" signaling (sound and light).
• Manual two-way alarm (sound and light).
• Automatic "Alarm" (sound and light) in the following cases: door opening, connection interruption, short circuitbetween the sentinel device and sensors, cabin station.

Other Features

The working cabin is heated by an additional heater, which works on the principle of heat extraction from the liquid of the engine cooling system.

Light lines are laid under the body roof lining. On the ceiling - plafonds:

• One - in solitary confinement.
• 2-4 - total.
• 2 - in the guardroom.

Plafonds protect metal grilles. Additionally, a searchlight can be installed. There is a shield for separate switching on of lighting, heating.

Additional accessories

Avtozak can be equipped with the following:

• Fire extinguishers in the driver's cab and guardroom.
• Two car first aid kits.
• Chocks.
• Emergency stop symbol.
• Roof ladder.

Avtozak is a specialized vehicle for transporting "dangerous passengers". It stands on a standard truck or bus chassis, but has a body that is adapted in all respects to the main task of the vehicle.