A water police patrol starts patrolling in Lielupe and Driksa
The water police patrol of the Jelgava municipal police begins to monitor water transport traffic and compliance with navigation rules in the city’s rivers.
“In recent years, the intensity of traffic on the water has increased a lot – if once we could compare it to a minor road, now, especially in warm weather, it has already become a full-fledged highway. People travel with boats, catamarans, SUP boards, boats, yachts, and this is also the time when training takes place at the Children’s and Youth Sports School and rowing clubs. In general, the situation with water transport traffic in Lielupe and Driksa has improved, but we cannot do without reprimands,” says Inga Stepane, head of the Traffic Monitoring Department of Jelgava Municipality Police. For example, last year, recreational vessels were inspected 267 times during regular inspections. In 19 cases, violations of the rules of driving and operating the pleasure boat were found, and corresponding decisions were drawn up, while in another 55 cases, the driver of the pleasure boat was given a verbal reprimand for related violations.
The water police patrol, in accordance with the regulations of the Cabinet of Ministers “Rules on the traffic of vessels in inland waters”, will check the right to drive vessels, registration documents, operation of recreational vessels in accordance with regulatory enactments, i.e. i.e. for the prescribed equipment and means of rescue, for the carriage of passengers and for the use of a recreational vessel or rowing boat in unauthorized or prohibited places.
