Meet Raquel, Standing Corps officer from Portugal. After 13 years as a police officer, she decided to apply to join the European Union's first uniformed law enforcement service: Frontex.
Now, Raquel is in Ketrzyn, Poland, where she’s about to complete her training programme ahead of her deployment in January 2021.
Learning how to detect forged or false documents came as something totally new to me. But the most difficult part is to be far away from my children. But, I keep telling myself that it’s just a temporary separation. This keeps me going and makes me stronger. Very soon, we will be at Europe's external borders, helping to make them safer and more secure.”