It is no news that wild landfills are springing up like mushrooms in Nikšić, that riverbeds are especially threatened by garbage, and that the situation is most critical along the riverbed and banks of the Gračanica River. It is a common situation that after one cleared wild dump in the river and around the river Gračanica, two new ones appear, and the citizens, especially of the Ozrinići settlement, have been emphasizing for years that the installation of video surveillance is the only solution to protect the river, and the population, from garbage and unscrupulous fellow citizens . Whether video surveillance will help in the fight against illegal landfills and uncivilized living will be known soon because two of the planned six cameras have already been installed.
"We received consent from the Agency for the Protection of Personal Data to install video surveillance on Tsarevo Most, near the landfill and near the bed of the Gračanica River, in three locations. We hope that video surveillance will be installed in these places immediately after the holidays. At two locations, which previously had consent, after eliminating the technical deficiencies, we have already set up surveillance. It is about locations near the rivers Bistrica (Dragova Luka) and Gračanica (near the Blue Bridge)," the head of the Municipal Police told "Vijesta" Veselin Curovic.
At the location near the so-called Before the installation of video surveillance, a landfill was already created near the Blue Bridge, near the Bauxite ramp, a month after the wild landfills along Gračanica were cleaned.
Čurović states that now the officers of the Municipal Police and the Municipal Secretariat for Communal Affairs and Traffic will be able to more successfully identify those who dispose of waste in places that are not intended for that and punish them. He claims that after last year's protests to save the river Gračanica, which were organized by "Ecopatriotism", "Eco etiquette" and a group of citizens, they regularly visited Gračanica and indiscriminately punished the perpetrators they found or reported, and among them was the company whose founder Municipality.
"For the past year and a half, together with the Secretariat for Communal Affairs and Traffic, we have often visited the area where illegal landfills are located and sanctioned more than ten legal and natural persons. At our request, the Service for Inspection Affairs ordered private companies to rehabilitate wild landfills that were located on their land, and they brought that land to its intended purpose," Čurović pointed out.
The minimum fines for dumping waste in places that are not intended for this are 500 euros for a natural person, 1.500 for a legal entity and 500 for a responsible person in a legal entity. And that the punishment bore fruit, the Chief of the Communal Police points out that it has never happened that the same natural or legal person is punished twice for the mentioned offense.
"According to systematization, we have 22 employees, and currently around 15 of them are working, because some are on sick leave and some are on vacation. We still need six or seven officers and we are already in the phase where we will fill those positions as well, so I hope that, with the new technical means that we will acquire, as far as traffic is concerned, we will often visit critical parts of the city and, if necessary , to sanction all those who dispose of waste where it is not allowed", said Čurović.
Director of the Environmental Movement "Ozone" Aleksandar Perovic believes that video surveillance is the last form of attempt to protect against illegal waste and other illegal actions, but also proof that regular inspection surveillance as a form of prevention is missing.
"They are also proof that there is not enough civil responsibility to report illegal actions that are observed. Video-surveillance must be supported by the prosecution of those caught breaking the law, otherwise this type of attempt to prevent illegal actions will be meaningless. As my favorite book is Orwell's '1984', this time reminds me more and more of the vision that we will be 'covered' by video-surveillance in all, even the most intimate, places, especially in nature, because there is obviously a lack of home upbringing and education and certainly individual responsibility as citizens. "Once upon a time, used handkerchiefs were carried in the pocket to the house, but today everything is thrown around, even in rivers and lakes," Perović pointed out.
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