Chinese police to join Croatian patrols

Chinese tourists in Croatia will be in for a surprise when they see police from their homeland patrolling the streets this summer.

For the second year running, Chinese law enforcement officers will be joining their fellow professionals in the popular Balkan tourist destination on the streets of the capital Zagreb, the historic walled city of Dubrovnik, tourist resort Zadar and Croatia's biggest county, Lika-Senj.

Croatia has been running the Safe Tourism Season project since 2006 when officers from Hungary became the first foreign law enforcement officials invited to take part. Since then, more than 800 officers from 19 countries have come to assist their Croatian counterparts at the height of the tourist season, undergoing special localized training before starting patrols.