You can run, but you can't hide... At least not in Makarska, anyway.
One popular Dalmatian seaside destination which attracts countless tourists from across Europe and indeed the world each year has decided to step up its surveillance game in a somewhat Orwellian approach to keeping tabs on any wrongdoing that one might try to find justification for getting out of, including but not limited to traffic and driving offences.
As Morski writes on the 9th of May, 2018, gone will be the days of wriggling out of paying fines with weak justifications as Makarska will become home to high quality video footage with seven new, and three existing high-resolution surveillance cameras, which will serve as both aids and providers of proof for Makarska's local police officers, municipal executives, the court, and city companies in cases of illegality.
Makarska's ''Big Brother'' cameras will be placed to film at ten different locations, and the plan is to install fourteen more cameras.
The project is a product of the City of Makarska and the department for communal and traffic management, which will rent, service and maintain the radio links, as well as fork out for an entirely new server for a total of ten cameras at a cost of eleven thousand kuna per month, Slobodna Dalmacija writes.
According to PP Prevention Officer Makarska Dino Nemčić, the installed cameras will contribute to tourist security as well as police controls.
As Deputy Mayor Dražen Nemčić explains, the installion of the aforementioned video surveillance lies within the scope of a three-year project with the aim to be fully and properly implemented in Makarska by the year 2020.
The scenic Dalmatian city's aim is naturally the prevention of criminal offenses and unwanted occurrences, as well as the desire to further ensure and increase the overall safety of residents and tourists, with regard to both traffic and in public spaces.
With all this being said, it might be wise to remember that there not only Biokovo is watching over you next time you get the urge to skip a red light in Makarska.
Click here for the original by Dijana Turic for Slobodna Dalmacija
