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🚨A #Frontex standing corps officer helped local customs officers detect 281 kg of marijuana at the Serbian-Bulgarian border. The drugs have been hidden inside a truck registered in Turkey.
Both the truck and the drugs were seized, and the driver arrested.
Criminals are fast, so law enforcement officers need to stay ahead of the game.
8 days, 6 locations and 161 participants – #Frontex officers shared their knowledge on the detection of stolen cars with our Moldovan colleagues as part of our operation in the country 🇲🇩
RT @CELBET3: Acting as one ➡️ During Joint CELBET Activities 10 (JCA) in Greece, customs officers cooperated with @Frontex officers in their operation.
Millions of travellers cross the EU’s external borders every year and their number continues to grow.
How will border checks look in the future?
Read more ⬇️
https://frontex.europa.eu/future-of-border-control/eu-research/news-and-events/frontex-publishes-technology-foresight-on-biometrics-for-the-future-of-travel-us6C6v
🆕How will biometric technologies evolve in the next 10, 15 or 20 years to help us cross borders seamlessly?
🎥Watch our video and learn more about our latest study that looked at the future of biometrics in border check systems
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6ieEF4nFYQ
🚨 Earlier this month, #Frontex and Romanian authorities stopped a driver who tried to get away with 14 thousand packages of illegal cigarettes worth 33 000 💶
🇷🇴 @FrontieraRO
More on the story ⬇️
https://www.facebook.com/frontex/posts/pfbid0TpxAceY1VfJ85ScTAkkedN2v1BYVPaDrZLoDEUnYKPZ4iFCWzUVHEfMwsp6T9MdDl
RT @EU_CEPOL: 👥 In cooperation with @EULISA_agency & @Frontex, we organise a #CEPOLonline course to raise awareness on the European Travel Information and Authorisation System (#ETIAS), its functionalities and its role in #LawEnforcement practice.
🗓️ 21-23 November
📌https://www.cepol.europa.eu/education-training/what-we-teach/online-courses/online-course-20092022-etias-its-role-scope
This week at #Frontex: We met with a high-level delegation from Lebanon 🇱🇧to discuss cooperation on both sides of the Mediterranean and how we can tackle migration challenges together #EU4BorderSecurity
Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, more than 1.405 million 🇷🇺 citizens have entered the European Union through its land borders.
At the same time, over 1.370 million have returned to Russia via its land borders with the 🇪🇺
🇪🇺-🇷🇺 update:
24 218 Russian citizens have entered the EU over the past week, 1400 fewer than the week before.
At the same time, 27 280 🇷🇺 citizens left the EU
The #EES will register the entry and exit at the EU external borders of non-EU nationals who are not residing in the Schengen Area
More information ⤵️
https://frontex.europa.eu/future-of-border-control/research-and-innovation/announcements/frontex-holds-conference-on-the-entry-exit-system-ees-in-the-maritime-domain-1PSDq6
Happening now: Conference on the Entry-Exit System at 🌊 in Rotterdam.
Together with @Marechaussee, @EU_Commission, experts and industry we are looking at how the system will be implemented at maritime borders ⤵️
https://frontex.europa.eu/future-of-border-control/research-and-innovation/announcements/frontex-holds-conference-on-the-entry-exit-system-ees-in-the-maritime-domain-1PSDq6
This summer, we organised a week-long operation together with 33 countries, @Europol, @INTERPOL_HQ , to combat trafficking in human beings, especially children. Results: arrest of 134 people suspected of THB & identification of 134 potential victims
#EMPACT #EUAntiTraffickingDay
Trafficking in human beings often takes place across borders, which is why it’s essential that countries and international organisations cooperate to detect, stop and prevent this crime. #Frontex works with 🇪🇺 countries, agencies and 🌍 partners to fight THB #EUAntiTraffickingDay
RT @DianeSchmittEU: Today on 18th October
is the 🇪🇺 European Union
Anti-Trafficking Day.
Trafficking in human beings is still happening in the 🇪🇺
Together we have to continue to prevent the crime, protect victims and convict traffickers.
#EUAntiTraffickingDay
The #Frontex Consultative Forum on Fundamental Rights published its ninth annual report for the year 2021 ⬇️
https://frontex.europa.eu/media-centre/news/news-release/frontex-consultative-forum-on-fundamental-rights-uCJpJy
#Frontex's statement following the publication of OLAF report: "These were practices of the past. The agency takes the findings of investigations, audits and other forms of scrutiny seriously and uses them as opportunities to make changes for the better"➡️https://frontex.europa.eu/media-centre/news/news-release/statement-of-frontex-executive-management-following-publication-of-olaf-report-amARYy
#Frontex's Strategic Risk Analysis 2022 provides foresight on how megatrends and possible future events might develop and affect EU border and migration management between now and 2032.
📌Coming up today: Justice and Home Affairs Council #JHA
🗒️Main topics will include the presentation of #Frontex's Strategic Risk Analysis 2022 and monitoring of the situation at EU-Ukraine and EU-Russia borders
@EUHomeAffairs
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