Road-based veterinary inspection for domestic live animal movement control and biosecurity: Administrative records from Türkiye, 2023–2026

Live animal movement is an important pathway for infectious animal disease dissemination, while primary responsibility for legal compliance rests with operators, and official veterinary controls verify that compliance. This retrospective descriptive study evaluated aggregated administrative records from five permanent domestic veterinary road-control and inspection stations in Türkiye. Annual Directorate-level summaries for 2023–2025 were treated as complete-year results, whereas 2026 was analysed separately as a partial year. Vehicle non-compliance was expressed as the proportion of inspected vehicles recorded as non-compliant, with Wilson 95% confidence intervals. Animal-level figures were retained as administrative descriptors because species composition, consignment size and the source-record counting rule limit interpretation of a pooled animal-level rate. During the complete years 2023–2025, 32,767 vehicles were inspected and 1445 were recorded as non-compliant, corresponding to 4.41% (95% CI 4.19–4.64). In partial 2026 records, 10,849 vehicles were inspected and 311 were recorded as non-compliant, corresponding to 2.87% (95% CI 2.57–3.20). The mean number of animals per inspected vehicle increased markedly over time, and 2026 contributed 65.1% of the pooled animal denominator; therefore animal-level percentages were not used as headline indicators of temporal change. Administrative penalties are reported as nominal annual amounts and are not compared across years. These findings describe recorded inspection and enforcement outputs at the five stations; they do not estimate national non-compliance prevalence, station effectiveness or disease-risk reduction.