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That one was a strange one - there was a way through the mountains which we wanted to take that would get us from Bosnia to Montenegro - komoot routed through it, maps.me routed through it, not sure about google. We started climbing and police car caught up with us. The guys were very polite and warm (as with all the people there) and said that we can't continue - problems.
Having already climbed some 400 vertical meters we didn't want to to turn around as the border was like 10 kilometers away but they didn't want to let us continue. We asked what sort of problems would we face - would it be fine or jail or what but they weren't very explanatory about it just pointed us to an official border crossing where we had our passports checked, got stamps and so on.
We thought maybe they wanted some bribe or something but then the other day, a guy from another village we stayed in - Grahovo - warned us in advance not to go some way that leads towards Bosnia because many travellers take it and get turned around.
So from what I understood - Bosnia / Montenegro border crossing must be made through official border checkpoints and not all the roads have those and this rule also does not apply to locals.