A Bulgarian (right) and a Romanian (left) traffic police officer are shown patrolling outside of Ruse. Photo by BGNES
Four Romanian policemen have arrived at the District Police in Bulgaria's Dobrich in order to start patrolling the northernmost part of the Bulgarian Black Sea resorts together with their local colleagues.
The joint Bulgarian-Romanian patrols of Bulgaria's Black Sea resorts for the 2011 summer season start as of July 1. The first Romanian policemen will be assigned to the northern resorts Albena and Golden Sands, which attract the highest number of Romanian tourists.
In the summer of 2010, Bulgaria and Romania launched joint policing for the first time in their history in the Bulgarian Black Sea resorts, which boast about 1 million Romanian tourists per year.
Two weeks ago, joint Bulgarian-Romanian traffic police units started patrolling Bulgaria's Danube city of Ruse, 60 km south of Bucharest, a measure that will be in place over the summer.
The joint traffic policing in Ruse is part of the initiatives of the police authorities of Bulgaria and Romania to prevent traffic incidents in border and transit points.
The joint Bulgarian-Romanian traffic policing of Ruse will continue till September 15, 2011. The Romanian police officers are wearing their native uniforms and have the status of observers. Any violators are sanctioned according to the Bulgarian legislation by the Bulgarian police officers. The officers' roles are reversed on Romanian territory.