Police in Latvia

Or you can call:

112 (emergency telephone number)

Police people and police cars are at present all around and all time in the old town of Riga, this gives a feeling of safety to tourists.

Some things to know:

Alcohol: it's not legal to drink alcohol outside in the street. It's possible to buy alcohol in shops and supermarkets only until 22:00 (but in bars, night clubs and restaurants also after 22:00).

I was standing outside the bar Key Bar and smoking a cigarette, finished the cigarette and left it on the street. A police car was around with two police people that spotted my action, they came to me and told me to take the cigarette and throw in the trash. I did it, and said that I'm sorry and that it'd not happen again.

They gave me this flayer and left:

Later on I heard that I got luck since they let me go with a warning, otherwise I could have gotten a 5 LVL fine for throwing the cigarette.

Traffic tickets:

Standing outside in the street and smoking I spotted a red car that was parking in the old town next to the club Pussy Louge, two police people came and put a piece of paper on this car. A parking ticket:

 

Some time later on while smoking another cigerette I saw the poor owner of the car, this time I also spotted another thing: the car was locked with this lock on the weel:

The woman called the police and eventually they came.

The fine that she has to pay for this was 39 LVL! And seems like this file was for parking the car there for 2 hours, for every additional hour the find would have raised in 8 more LVL!

Being an owner of a car in Riga is not a simple thing... maybe it's just better to walk... after all this city (the old town) is maximum 15 minutes walk to cross in every direction.

Unless you're lazy... better walk on foot :)

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