Marius Comper

PUBLIC FILE · IGSU INVENTORY, JUNE 2026

Who has the key?

Romania's national register contains 6,118 entries for civil-defence shelters. 199 are marked public and functional. In all 225 Prahova rows, the longitude repeats the latitude's decimal digits.

The file reaches the address, declared capacity and status. It does not publish a row-level inspection date, access procedure or opening time.

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This is an audit of the register. During a real incident, follow RO-ALERT messages, warning signals and instructions from the authorities.

entries6,118100% of the register
Each mark represents one row. Orange marks PH coordinates with repeated decimals.

01 / THE FILTER

A positive technical status does not tell you who can enter

Type and status are separate columns. Reading them together changes the opening number.

6,118

register entries

Every PDF row, including private entries and records without a completed type or status.

2,415

marked public

39.5% of the register. The label does not confirm immediate access.

199

public and functional

3.3% of all rows and 8.2% of rows marked public.

934functional
2,881partly functional
2,272nonfunctional
31status missing

The 934 functional rows include 734 marked private. Declared capacity is not the number of places available to the public. The register does not supply a single published national definition for “partly functional”.

02 / THE LOCAL REGISTER

What IGSU publishes for your locality

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03 / THE COORDINATES

In Prahova, two columns move together

Independently measured latitude and longitude should not repeat the same decimal digits systematically.

row#3304

latitude44.9507
longitude26.9507
Bucov commune, Chițorani village · PDF, page 74
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Every PH row follows the pattern

IDs 3300–3524 all repeat the latitude's decimal part in the longitude. The pattern appears in the source PDF before our extraction.

The file cannot establish a cause. Its practical consequence is clear: these coordinates cannot support a proximity or routing service.

Other signals

Twelve rows have no coordinates. Two Sector 4 rows use longitude 30.634821, east of mainland Romania. Other positions require independent geocoding before use.

04 / THE DOOR

What the register knows. What must be established on the ground.

The two lists separate an administrative inventory from the information needed for access.

PUBLISHED FOR EACH ROW

  • 01locality and address
  • 02declared type: public, private or missing
  • 03coordinates, where present
  • 04declared capacity
  • 05declared status

ABSENT FROM THE REGISTER

  • Athe last inspection date for that row
  • Bthe space's current use
  • Cthe opening procedure and responsible role
  • Destimated clearance time
  • Ethe defects behind the status
up to24 h

With command posts excepted, Romanian law allows public shelters to have other peacetime uses and requires them to be cleared during an emergency within 24 hours. The register does not identify which spaces need clearing or how long each would take. Law 481/2004, Article 45

05 / TIME

Forty-six days later, Vâlcea appears with ten more shelters

Two official releases describe the county at different moments.

The county release has ten more public shelters and 686 more declared places than the national file. The difference shows why each row needs an update date; it does not show when the ten spaces were built or added.

What Vâlcea inspections found

The county release lists, among other defects, doors that do not seal, blocked mechanisms, missing filters, failed ventilation, leaks and emergency exits that cannot be opened. These examples describe Vâlcea; we do not project them onto the whole country.

06 / THE CHECK

The gaps we can count

Missing values remain visible. No row was repaired by assumption.

403without public/private type
66without capacity
31without status
12without coordinates
110

rows form 52 identical groups once the row number is removed. They may describe distinct compartments that the register does not distinguish, or they may be duplicates. We retain them and decline to choose an explanation without a unique shelter identifier.

EDITORIAL PROPOSAL FOR THE NEXT RELEASE

Five fields that would make the register more useful

  1. 1
    Last inspection date

    to separate recent evidence from an old classification

  2. 2
    Unique space identifier

    to distinguish compartments from duplicates

  3. 3
    Institutional role responsible for opening

    without publishing personal details

  4. 4
    Current use and clearance time

    to interpret the legal 24-hour limit

  5. 5
    Defect code

    so “partly functional” says what needs repair

These are editorial recommendations from the audit, not additional duties attributed to the law.

07 / METHOD

How all 137 pages were read

The results can be reproduced from the official PDF and extraction script.

  1. 01
    We preserved the source.

    The IGSU PDF has 137 pages and SHA-256 hash e715…36bc3.

  2. 02
    We extracted table cells.

    The ruled layout preserves all nine columns and intentionally missing values.

  3. 03
    We checked structure.

    There are 6,118 consecutive IDs, from 1 to 6,118, with no missing or repeated ID.

  4. 04
    We recomputed the findings.

    Totals by status, type, county and missing values come from the rows rather than a copied summary.

  5. 05
    We visually inspected anomalies.

    The Prahova pattern and rows at the beginning, middle and end were compared with rendered PDF pages.

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Decisive sources

A register can show an address. Trust begins when it also shows when the address was checked, who opens it and how long that takes.