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Joined Apr 2022
Latest on 🇪🇺-🇷🇺 borders:
🔹66 000 Russian citizens have entered the EU over the past week, a 30% increase in comparison to the preceding week
🔹Most of the Russian citizens are entering the EU through Finnish and Estonian border crossing points
More ⤵️
https://frontex.europa.eu/media-centre/news/news-release/update-situation-at-the-eu-s-land-border-with-russia-X3iWuK
🚨Last week at the 🇪🇺 external borders.
Here’s how #Frontex officers helped Member States fight cross-border crime:
🔹120 falsified documents
🔹900 kg of cocaine
🔹13 stolen cars
🔹58 800 undeclared 💶
🔹6 suspected people smugglers
🚨#Frontex and Spanish authorities @policia teamed up to fight cross-border crime.
Here's what we have achieved together as part of this year's operation Minerva ⤵️
https://frontex.europa.eu/media-centre/news/news-release/operation-minerva-frontex-and-spain-team-up-to-fight-crime-sBSnUx
The Electronic Library Document System (FIELDS) helps police and border control officers fight against document fraud and related crimes.
Watch the video to learn more about the joint #Frontex and @Interpol_HQ project ⤵️
RT @INTERPOL_HQ: 🛂 The @Frontex - @INTERPOL_HQ Electronic Library Document System (FIELDS) is making it quicker and easier for border officials to check the authenticity of travel and identity documents, with more acc…
Two #Frontex officers working in Romania were on their way back from a night patrol when they spotted a dog hit by a car and her puppies which were hidden nearby🐶
The officers rescued the animals and brought them to a shelter
@poliziadistato
RT @poliziadistato: 2 agenti impegnati nell’operazione #Terra2022 di @Frontex in Romania, smontando dalla notte, hanno soccorso sulla strada di Comlosu Mare una cagnolina investita e i suoi cuccio…
#Frontex Deputy Executive Director Lars Gerdes was at Prague airport to meet with standing corps officers who perform first-line checks together with local authorities.
They are here to respond to the increasing air traffic in 2022
Aircraft deployed by #Frontex to support 🇪🇺 Member States with fighting cross-border crime & search and rescue have completed 1000 missions this year:
🔹150 missions a month
🔹800 operations
🔹100 suspicious vessels detected
🔹21 000 people rescued
More: https://frontex.europa.eu/media-centre/news/news-release/frontex-aircraft-fly-1000-mission-HRtGEK
RT @UNHumanRightsEU: As part of #VEGA project conducted by @Frontex, @UNHumanRightsEU visited the 🇵🇱 - 🇺🇦 border to share our office's expertise and to support law enforcement officials to uphold #HumanRights in the context of #migration.
Migrant rights are #HumanRights.
Yesterday, we met with a group of Green/EFA MEPs and journalists in Evros to explain #Frontex's activities in Greece.
@Tineke_Strik , @saskiabricmont , @ErikMarquardt thank you for your visit and your questions
RT @EP_Justice: 👉This afternoon at @Frontex Headquarters @EP_Justice MEPs met with Executive Director ad interim @aijakalnaja & management team to exchange on challenges of war in Ukraine for border management, incl. humanitarian response and fundamental rights.
🚨A #Frontex standing officer helped Serbian authorities detect more than 10 kilograms of gold worth 600 000 💶 hidden in a car’s fuel tank
Read the full story⤵️
https://www.facebook.com/frontex/posts/pfbid02QNwiMEmPS1ootbKz7eXrBpqKvNvHs6en1V2MKhsas8CCGTpub6hyBdTQmsLEbPwl
📷 #Frontex standing corps officers and their Moldovan colleagues on a joint patrol at the Moldovan-Ukrainian border
Jenny and Cristian work together at a border crossing point between Albania and Greece as document experts. Both of them have joined the #Frontex standing corps on short-term missions from Germany and Romania 👮♀️👮
Read more about their work⤵️
https://www.facebook.com/frontex/posts/pfbid07qLfR8yVHYKTVSpFyHbWD2YsHsYNDaNg4cWvXQzAejkVfuS2EBzky6RakJCsbwPGl
💡 The #EUInnovationHub for Internal Security held its first annual event in Brussels this week.
➡️#Frontex experts joined reps. from EU institutions, security experts and academic to discuss encryption & AI, the Hub’s priorities for 2022
Over recent weeks, the number of people crossing 🇪🇺-🇺🇦 borders remained relatively stable with the 10-days average number of Ukrainians entering (36 000) and exiting (38 000) the EU
🇪🇺-🇺🇦 update:
In the past 7 days, there were around 44 000 entries per day at the borders between Ukraine and the European Union, out of which 36 000 by 🇺🇦 citizens
Last week, 🇬🇷 Citizen Protection Minister @theodorikakosp visited our standing corps officers working in Evros and thanked them for their support in monitoring the external borders of the European Union 🇪🇺
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Joined Apr 2022
