The police will receive help from the military with the handling of the influx of illegal migrants, as about 350 professional soldiers were deployed on Friday, and if the duty to issue a certificate of short-term residence to non-expellable foreigners were scrapped, it would improve the situation significantly, Interior Ministry state secretary Martin Kralovic and Police Corps Vice-president Damian Imre concurred on Friday. "At this moment, we have more than 13 places where we're able to process migrants whom we're not allowed to expel and to whom, based on the law, we are obligated to issue a certificate on short-term residence, which motivates them to come to Slovakia in the first place," stated Imre, who would welcome it if this duty were abrogated. If that happened, the police might not even need the aid from the military, he added. The need to make changes to the rules governing the issuing of certificates was confirmed also by Kralovic, who asked Parliament to support an extraordinary session on the amendment to the relevant legislation on Monday (September 11). Parliament already tried to do so on Friday, yet it wasn't able to open the session, even on the second attempt. Members of the Slovak Armed Forces are currently helping with transporting migrants across the whole of Slovakia, maintaining public order and guarding facilities of the foreign police.
(TASR)
