kind of police base of information there are almost two thousands registrated bicycles of the citizens.
Ever year during the warm weather, in the early spring time until late autumn, these preventive action of free bike registration are held by every police sations in County of Vukovarsko-srijemska.
When citizen decides to registrate his bicycle, the procedure is very simple: a police officer takes a photo of a bike and saves it in a base of registrates bikes, also writes as much information as he can about the bike (colour, type, serial number, specific damages or signs on a bike) and personal informations about the owner of a bike. The practice shows that registrated bicycles are less often stolen because the thieves are more likely to give up of stealing a bike that has te registration mark on it.
The importance of this project is the fact that number of stolen bikes was reduced for 70 percent.
„Police in community“ the national programme of Ministry of the Interior, showed up as an idea of so called „neighbourhood police“ at year 2001. and started to provade at 2003. as programmme of police service, less formal and more acceptable to the citizens, by taking the proactive approach to problems of a local people such as black spot sin traffic, drugg consumers in their disctrict councils, burglaries at stores or stealings of peoples property such as bikes, motorcycles, baby carriages…