Police conduct checks at venues in the area of Prague’s Wenceslas Square

Police on Friday night conducted checks at bars, night clubs, strip clubs, and gambling venues in the area of Prague’s Wenceslas Square. A special police unit, together with the municipal police, also patrolled all three lines of the city’s metro system; over the course of the evening sixteen people were detained – one on the suspicion of carrying false identification. Another was wanted by police state-wide, while one had illegal drugs on his person. Nine of those detained were foreign nationals. In all, officers checked the IDs of 240 people and looked into more than 30 venues.