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Mindaugas Džermeika, head of the Highway Police Service of the Klaip Comda County Police Chief Commissariat (VPK), says on tv3.lt that improved weather conditions are also driving increased traffic from cars moving towards the coast. These trends already require improved controls.
“All major cities have large sources of risk. The first is probably supermarkets, and then we look at other spaces. We have a coastal area in Klaipeda, where there are more people.
Visit various coastal areas, parking lots for a large number of cars. The most important thing is not to violate the quarantine conditions. Everything else is legal, in order. Let’s say that a resident travels within the limits of his municipality, he can reach those beaches under quarantine conditions and move there completely, ”says M. Džermeika.
According to the official, a greater control of the movement of the population in Klaipėda county will already be carried out this weekend. To ensure that all the people who meet in the public coastal areas are residents of the city of Klaipeda, a special mobile application will be used to scan the registration numbers of the cars. If the person is found to have come from another municipality, the offender will face a fine.
“Another thing, if people flock to the sites, we will notice that several family farms are coming in droves, they will certainly be warned and prosecuted,” says Klaipėda County. Head of the LSC Highway Police Service.
Even more stringent restrictions are being considered
According to M. Džermeika, even stricter control measures are being considered. These would only be used as a last resort, if people began to swarm en masse, did not comply with quarantine requirements, and the police were unable to control the flows in any way.
Then you should contact the municipality. Explain how to restrict flows by certain means.
If we talk about access to the dock parking lot on Vėtros street, the number of places in that place should be limited, since supermarkets were once limited to being able to park a car anywhere else. There are alternatives.
And in the worst case, we would be talking about temporary road signs that would restrict access, “says the official.
However, Ms Jermeika says she hopes such measures are not necessary:
“As you understand, it is not very desirable to prohibit an inhabitant of the city who does not leave the territory of the municipality from entering public spaces. But if the situation is really out of control and the massive movement of drivers and arrivals is high, the amount of written protocols will probably allow to assess the situation that people do not follow the quarantine conditions. “
Extremely large movements are currently taking place on the coast near the Klaipėda pier, the flows are not much smaller and near the Olandas Kepure cliff in Karklė.
“If we take the weekend, it is the most visited coastal area. Access is the only one, so everyone arrives and leaves through Lideikio Street. The fact that there are traffic flows. This is a weekend factor, ”says M. Džermeika, head of the Road Police Service in Klaipėda.
Officers on the beach cause a smile
Algirdas Budginas, the head of the Palanga Police Station, jokes that sometimes the patrols on the beach even make people smile, because someone would not want to walk into the sea during work.
“There was a case where the officers just picked our access points and got out of the cars and went back and forth, they assessed if there was a need for more control, but it wasn’t necessary. People just watched with a smile as officers visited one place or another, and if there had been rapes, they would have been caught, ”says Budgin, adding that beach-loving residents abide by all quarantine restrictions. The distance is not difficult to follow.
Andromeda Grauslienė, a spokesperson for the Klaipėda County Police Chief Commissariat, says there were no quarantine violations on the beaches of Palanga or Klaipėda last weekend, but up to 38 cars were not allowed in the complex.
“In Palanga, officials intensively control the entry of people into mobile checkpoints. This weekend, February 19-21. 5,894 cars were inspected, crews were not allowed to enter the spa, and protocols were drawn up on violation of movement between municipalities for 38 crews. There were no violations of the quarantine requirements on the beaches of Palanga over the weekend.
There were also no violations of the quarantine requirements on the beaches of the city of Klaipeda. Four protocols on KET violations were listed, ”says the spokesperson.
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