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Frontex to Deploy 175 Specialist Border Personnel to Greece

Frontex to Deploy 175 Specialist Border Personnel to Greece

2010-10-29

Five days after receiving a request from Greece for deployment of Rapid Border Intervention Teams (RABITs), Frontex has finalised arrangements for human and technical resources to be deployed to the Greek-Turkish land border in the region of Orestiada

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Frontex Executive Director signs decision to deploy RABITs

Frontex Executive Director signs decision to deploy RABITs

2010-10-26

Warsaw, 26 October – Today, Frontex Executive Director Ilkka Laitinen signed a decision to deploy Rapid Border Intervention Teams to Greece after a request from Greek authorities.

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Frontex deploys Rapid Border Intervention Teams to Greece

Frontex deploys Rapid Border Intervention Teams to Greece

2010-10-25

Yesterday at 22:49 Frontex received a request from the Greek Minister of Citizen Protection Christos Papoutsis to deploy Rapid Border Intervention Teams (RABITs) as well as operational means to increase the control and surveillance levels

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Frontex signs working arrangement with Canada

Frontex signs working arrangement with Canada

2010-10-21

A delegation from the Canada Border Services Agency headed by its Executive Vice-President Mr. Luc Portelance visited Frontex today to sign a working arrangement with Frontex.

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Frontex Head Calls for More Powers to Detect and Prevent Human Trafficking

Frontex Head Calls for More Powers to Detect and Prevent Human Trafficking

2010-10-18

Ilkka Laitinen, Executive Director of Frontex, told the conference, “Towards a multidisciplinary approach to prevention of trafficking in human beings, prosecution of traffickers and protection of victims,” organised in Brussels by the Belgian Presidency

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Frontex Operational Office Opens in Piraeus

Frontex Operational Office Opens in Piraeus

2010-10-01

Frontex held an inauguration ceremony in Piraeus, Greece, on October 1 for the opening of its pilot Frontex Operational Office (FOO). The FOO represents the Agency’s first premises outside its Warsaw HQ as a pilot programme.

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