MOSTAR, February 28 (FENA) - Following the announcement that the Republic of Turkey has decided to open borders and thus release migrants to the European Union countries, Director of the Border Police of Bosnia and Herzegovina Zoran Galić and BiH Security Minister Fahrudin Radončić met and discussed national border, with an emphasis on the eastern border, as well as measures to be taken to respond effectively to the pressure of illegal migrants.
Although all available human, material and technical resources have been redeployed to the eastern and northeastern parts of the border, Director Galić said that the redeployment of the BiH Border Police officers along all lines of work will be redeployed in order to protect the state border and that an additional number of police officers has already been directed to the eastern part of the border, including the mobile units of the BiH Border Police.
In addition, they discussed the need to increase the support of other police agencies in border control, the BiH Border Police stated.
Currently, the BiH State Border Guard is assisted by officers from the Directorate for Coordination of Police Bodies, the State Investigation and Protection Agency and the Republika Srpska Ministry of Interior.
Minister Radončić said that the BiH BP and the relevant BiH institutions will have full support of the BiH Ministry of Security in their work and stressed the importance of improving coordination and involving all levels of government in managing the migrant situation in BiH more effectively, it is said in a statement.
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