Illegal migration
Austria receives new thermal imaging buses from the EU
On Wednesday, the police received two thermal imaging buses for operations at the EU's external border. Ambitious goals were formulated at the handover: The mission is to push illegal migration towards zero.
Five more are to be added in the coming weeks, said Interior Minister Gerhard Karner (ÖVP) at the handover in the Meidling barracks. The buses are 75 percent financed by the EU, added Berthold Hubegger, Head of the Operational Border and Alien Police Management Department at the Ministry of the Interior.
It is about "making our contribution to upgrading the EU's external border or the area in front of the EU's external border", said Karner. This should make it "safer and closer". During the handover, there was also a contingent change of police officers.
Around 40 of them would return from deployment or begin their deployment abroad, the Interior Minister explained. They are working on the border between Hungary and Serbia, but also in the "run-up" to the EU border between Serbia and North Macedonia.
They are there to counteract smuggling routes. Around 150 Austrian police officers are currently deployed in such operations - most of them directly on the EU's external border.
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