Graffiti surveillance service to be launched in Budapest

A graffiti removal service will soon begin to operate in Budapest, reports Népszabadság.

Any apartment house can join the program by paying a fee of around Ft 10,000 (€50) for which they receive a 24/7 look-out service which includes surveilling the house, and, if that fails and the house is graffitied anyway, they will remove it at once. Aside from these services, the graffiti removers would cooperate with the inhabitants and civil guards, and also report the graffiti-vandals to the police, added Viktor Szabadkai, Budapest chairman of SZDSZ.

According to SZDSZ's leader of the city operation committee Imre Lakos, this service would cost Budapest a few dozen million Ft. In order to launch the program, the city leadership will contact the districts, real estate owners, condominiums and the police.

This anti-graffiti project is, by the way, the successor of the program against illegal posters, launched last year. According to Lakos, it was successful as there are fewer illegal posters in the city, and the few companies which used to advertise themselves this way now turn to legal forms of advertising.

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