The protection of the European Union's external borders needs to be bolstered, Police Chief Stefan Hamran said Tuesday in light of increased illegal migration in Slovakia.
Hamran noted that the police are carrying out so-called compensatory measures, such as joint, Slovak-Hungarian patrols on trains and joint checks in Hungary. "The Hungarians have promised us that all illegal migrants who are detained in Hungary will be taken and escorted back to Serbia," Hamran claimed, adding that these measures do not burden the Slovak police and prevent migrants from entering Slovakia.
According to the police chief, reintroducing checks on the Slovak-Hungarian border would put an administrative burden on the police.
"We have to register [migrants] in the system and if we find out that they are from Syria, we let them go anyway. They'll continue their journey to Germany to meet with their families. We can't seal off 665 kilometres of the Slovak-Hungarian border and it wouldn't make any sense," the police chief stated.
Source: TASR
