From September 15 to 19, 2024, the competition “Shield of the Homeland Pula2024” will be in the area of Pula and Medulin and participants will be police officers of the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Croatia, veterans of the Special Police Units from the The Croatian War of Independence, members of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Croatia, as well as police officers of foreign police forces.
Competitors in the final, which takes place on September 19, pass a track about forty kilometers long, with the help of a compass and a topographic maps, carrying mandatory equipment with a total weight of about ten kilograms, and in addition they will perform complex military-police tasks (navigation, rope crossing, pedestrian obstacles, rowing, swimming, assembling and disassembling weapons, etc.). The ceremony of announcing the winners will be held on the same evening in the magnificent Arena, in front of/inside which citizens and tourists will be able to see the police equipment and learn more about the police profession.
Competitors participate in the race in official uniforms and with weapons, so we hereby inform citizens and tourists that this is a competition and there is no need to be alarmed if they notice armed domestic and foreign police officers and soldiers on the streets of Pula and its surroundings.