The Dirección General de Tráfico (commonly known as DGT) is an autonomous body under the Spanish Ministry of the Interior responsible for the execution of road policy.

The territorial administration is made up of 50 Provincial Traffic Headquarters, one per province, two local Traffic Headquarters in Ceuta and Melilla and 14 local Traffic offices (in Alcorcón, Alzira, Cartagena, Fuerteventura, Gijón, Ibiza, Lanzarote, La Línea de la Concepción, Menorca, La Palma, Sabadell, Santiago de Compostela and Talavera de la Reina), which carry out procedures related to the ownership of vehicles (registration, transfers, deregistration, etc.), drivers (tests to obtain driving licences and licences, tests to obtain driving licences and licences, registration, transfers, deregistration, etc.), drivers (tests to obtain driving licences and licences, tests to obtain driving licences and licences, etc.). ), drivers (tests to obtain driving licences and permits, issuing and extending licences, etc.) and sanctioning procedures for traffic offences in interurban areas. In these tasks, it is supported by the Guardia Civil’s Traffic Group.

In its traffic surveillance and control tasks, the DGT has a Helicopter Unit, equipped with 21 helicopters of the EC120, AS-355N/NP and EC135 models, stationed at bases in Madrid, Valencia, Malaga, Seville, A Coruña, Zaragoza and Valladolid.

It was created by Law 47/59, of 30 July 1959, on the regulation of competence in traffic matters.

Página web: http://www.dgt.es/