Police in St. Petersburg will teach foreign languages ??to communicate with tourists. This decision was made in the framework of the program for the development of tourism in the city, according to the publication "Nevsky News", said the chairman of the Committee for the development of tourism of St. Petersburg, Andrei Mushkarev. "The next step on the way to creating the image of St. Petersburg as a friendly city for tourists should be the creation of a full-fledged tourist police," the official said.. A new program for the development of tourism in the northern capital was adopted on November 14 at a meeting of the city government. In addition to the creation of the tourist police, it provides for the construction of three floating hotels, as well as the development of the information service service on the AskMe seg- ments. The program is allocated 4.

3 billion rubles. Mushkarev said that by the end of the year more than 7 million tourists will come to St. Petersburg. This is 10 percent more than last year. In Moscow, the tourist police exist since 2014. Its employees speak not only English, but also French, German and Chinese. They help tourists not to get lost in the capital and investigate thefts and robbery attacks on foreigners.

The police in Petersburg will learn to communicate with tourists in English.