As part of the Safe Tourist Season project, organised by the Croatian Interior Ministry, 16 foreign police officers were introduced in Croatia’s second city of Split, and an additional 17 in the Istrian city of Rovinj, on Tuesday, where they will assist local law enforcement authorities during the ongoing tourist season.

The Split-Dalmatia County has received police officers from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Germany and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and soon three more from Italy and France will join them, bringing their number in this county to 19.

Head of the Split Police Department Slobodan Marendic said today that law enforcement authorities would also intensify their cooperation with tax and customs officials in the coming days, as well as over the weekend, when the Ultra Festival will take place in the biggest Croatian Adriatic city.

The 17 police officers from seven countries deployed to Istria will remain their until September 1. These officers are coming from Austria (4), Poland (3), Italy (3), Serbia (2), Germany (2), Hungary (2), and Slovenia (1).

All of them, except the two Serbian policemen, will work in Croatia wearing their original uniforms, and will assist in everyday duties such as communication with tourists and traffic regulation. The Serbian officers will be engaged in establishing better cooperation and prevention of more complex forms of organised crimes such as human trafficking, slavery, organised prostitution and unlawful migrations, or prevention of drug abuse and robbery, the head of Istria Police Department, Alen Klabot, said in Rovinj today.

This project has been conducted every year since 2006 when it was launched by the Interior Ministry.

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