Kaunas is surrounded by police stations; they also check in and out of town.

The city is closed until Sunday night.

From now on, Kaunas will begin to live at a different pace, the city will be closed for a long time for the first time, the checkpoints installed on the main roads will be open until December 27 at 9 pm

As it happened last weekend, only people who work here, are registered, have real estate or other urgent matters can enter the city. The city and district are patrolled by mobile police teams that can stop any driver and demand that the purpose of the trip be justified.

Odeta Vaitkevičienė, spokesperson for the Kaunas County Police Chief’s Station, mentioned that during this long shutdown, not only drivers going into the city, but also drivers leaving the city will be screened at some posts. Checks are also waiting for public transport passengers.

Have copies of documents prepared

Last Friday at 1 pm When the checkpoints started operating, the police received complaints from residents that they had to wait in line for 4 hours after returning to Kaunas after work. A particularly large queue formed at the Murava crossing at the time, when people who had stopped working in companies operating in the Free Economic Zone flocked to the city at the same time.

“We urge people to prepare in advance the documents that show that they work or live in the city. It can be an extract from the Registry Center, an employee certificate, a letter from the employer. Officials can also receive photos of these documents by phone, which would greatly speed up the time of inspections, “Delfi O. Vaitkevičienė, spokesman for the Kaunas County Chief Police Commissioner, told the portal.

He clarified that it took a long time to check drivers and passengers who did not have the necessary documents. This is one of the reasons for congestion at checkpoints.

Both drunk and unauthorized drivers came to the stands

According to data from the last weekend, after the closed entrances to Kaunas, 2,000 people were not allowed to enter. 333 drivers.

Police representative O. Vaitkevičienė mentioned that most of the returning drivers could not justify the necessity of their trip, they said they were going to buy pizza, kebabs or travel anyway. There have been several attempts to outwit when the entire crew, the driver with the passengers, said they were going to pick up the package.

“The police will definitely let you go to the post office to pick up the package, you just need to show the received message. However, one person must go to pick up the package, not the whole company,” O. Vaitkevičienė clarified.

There were also curious cases: when the policemen searched the cars, they were caught by two drunk drivers. One of them has been prosecuted for drunkenness in excess of 1.51 per thousand, the other has been subjected to administrative misconduct.

77 traffic offenses (TFE) were also detected. According to the police representative O. Vaitkevičienė, drivers who lost their right or did not even acquire the right to go to inspection posts, others did not have the compulsory civil liability insurance, drove cars without a valid technical inspection.

The following roads leading to Kaunas have been blocked by blocks until January 4:

1. Mosėdžio st. / Kražių st.
2. Passing from highway 232 towards Kuršių st.
3. Exit the A1 towards Ašigalio str.
4. Gas stations and Iceland pl. passage of a series of garages
5. Partizanų st. exit A1
6. Passing the A1, turn onto Calle Darbo.
7. Future pl. at the entrance to the territory Ateities pl. fifty
8. Palemono g. 78F
9. Palemono g. / Kražantės st.
10. Kreidos g. / Titnago g.
11. Medžiotojų st. / Sąnašos g.
12. Juodelynės st. / Dvarų st.
13. A5 / Armoniškių st.

There are many exceptions

December 14, a government resolution stipulates that from 2020 December 16 00:00 until 2021 January 3 24:00 The movement of people between municipalities in the country is restricted, except in cases where:

to the municipality of your place of residence;
to a municipality other than that of your place of residence due to the death of close relatives;
work (in labor matters) when the workplace is in another municipality; to or from international passenger routes to or from airports, seaports, bus stations;
about health services;
for other objectively justified reasons of urgency, when travel to a municipality other than the one in which you reside is unavoidable. This restriction does not apply to people who are members of the same family or household and go to a municipality other than the one in which they live, where they own a property owned by one of the members of the family or household.