Prague 1 wants a special police unit focused on alcoholic tourists Prague 1 | From the region of | Prague Gossip
Prague 1 wants to push through the municipality to establish a special unit of police officers within the city police, which would be in charge of solving problems caused by tourists traveling to the center of Prague purely for the purpose of drinking alcohol. The town hall is ready to contribute to the unit’s members having higher salaries, providing them with the necessary training or using apartments.
Prague has been struggling with so-called alcohol tourism for a long time, and after a break caused by the coronavirus pandemic, drunken groups of tourists have returned to the streets in the center of the metropolis. At night they make noise and disturb the locals, there is no notice or vandalism. According to Mayor Terezia Radoměřská (TOP 09), the situation needs to be resolved urgently.
“In agreement with the municipality, which is the founder of the city police, we will try to initiate and financially support the creation of a segment of the city police, a specialized unit,” she said Radomerská. According to Radoměřská, the members of this unit should be equipped with the language and at the same time have training in the field of dispute resolution and mediation.
The Prague city police has been struggling with a lack of people for a long time, so according to the mayor, the town hall is ready for new support.
“We’re looking for bonuses to find those people,” she stated. Among them should be a salary increase compared to ordinary police officers, which would come from the coffers of the town hall. This would also provide the necessary training to the police officers, who also offered housing in the center – probably in some of the less than 300 vacant apartments that the town hall plans to renovate and rent out, for example, to members of the city’s key professions.
In Prague 1, the coalition of ODS, Pirates, TOP 09, ANO and Residents 1 has been in power since the beginning of November, in the previous period the ODS, We, what we live in (STAN, KDU-ČSL, Citizens’ Initiative), TOP 09 and ANO ruled there. Radoměřská replaced Petr Hejma (STAN), who left to join the opposition. Praha 1 Sobě, which won this year’s elections, is also in opposition.