Special attention to security

Palanga is the largest resort in the country, attracting hundreds of thousands holidaymakers to the seaside on summer days. To make the town visitors feel safe, the officers of special services have to keep up with a considerably increased workload.

In summer the police officers must react to approximately 56 calls every day - it is four times more than during the cold season. Firemen also receive approximately three times more requests for help during the holiday season than usual.

To make the holidaymakers and local residents feel safe, 15 video cameras have been installed in the town. In all cases, reaction to the events is attempted to be as expeditious as possible.

Since the police workload increases multiple times during the hot season, the local officers are helped by colleagues from other towns in the country. In summer every day peace was supervised by approximately 8 officers on detached service, prepared on the principal of universal police officers, in addition to about 20 Public Safety Service officers and Palanga Police Commissariat officers from Patrol Squad and Prevention Unit. The extended police force ensured that comparing to the situation last summer, the level of criminal activity in the public spaces has decreased this year.

In summer 38 lifeguards were watching the beach range of twenty-four kilometers. Their vigilance ensured that bathing in the Baltic Sea did not end with a tragedy for 68 families. The medical help was given to almost 200 people who were hurt or sick on the beach.

Immense workload and special responsibility in summer also falls on local medics - the resources available tend a considerably increased number of patients. Over three months of summer the surgery-emergency department tended the same number of patients as the remaining nine months altogether - 3 604. The emergency rushed to 2 612 calls during the summer. Out of season, this number of people looking for help is only registered over a half year period.