Prague, Feb 14 (CTK) – This year’s budget of the Czech police will rise by 20.8 million crowns over the wages of the officers who watched the second direct presidential election and the Senate by-election in the Trutnov ward, north Bohemia, the government decided on Wednesday and its press section told CTK.
This year, the police budget will amount to some 40 billion crowns.
Most of the money, over 15.2 million, will go directly to the police officers’ wages and the rest to the obligatory insurance.
The Interior Ministry’ report mentions neither the number of police officers who took part in the security measures nor their extent.
Before the January presidential election, the Prague police described their activities as the continuous checking of the polling stations and the facilities where the votes were counted afterwards.
The most important incident during the election that the police dealt with occurred when incumbent President Milos Zeman, who was re-elected eventually, and his wife entered the polling stations in Prague to cast their votes in the first round.
The voting act had to be interrupted after topless Ukrainian Femen activist, Angelina Diash, with the slogan “Zeman, Putin’s Slut” written in white on her breast and shouting it as well, attacked Zeman. His body guards stopped her and sent the case to the Prague police.
A Czech court imposed a three-month suspended sentence on Diash for violating the election and expelled her from the country.
