Paolo Cestra

Paolo Cestra

President of Honour
ROADPOL

First Executive Officer of the Italian National Police with over twenty years of service experience in Road Policing. European expert and special consultant on road safety, he was President of CARPOL Subgroup within the LEWP of the Council of the European Union in Brussels during the period July to December 2014.

From 2012 to 2019 he was the Italian representative to the LANDSEC Committee within the DGMove at the European Commission in Bruxelles and also member of the Experts Committee on road transport-social rules.

He is a contract professor, at the Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine of the Faculty of Medicine and Psychology of the "Sapienza" University of Rome (English language course in “Public Law”).

Author of several books and articles on road safety matters, Paolo is now improving studies on the new concept of road policing (illustrated into the book Road Policing – A new concept. Pacini Giuridica, 2020 - ISBN 9788833792583) and on the use of autonomous vehicles (illustrated into the article “Police use of driverless vehicles. A preliminary study”.  International Journal of Social Science Research and Review, 2023, vol.6, issue 3).