46 results for "rapid intervention"
2016-01-28
At the request of the Greek authorities for additional assistance at its external borders in the Aegean Frontex launched the deployment of some 400 officers and 15 vessels to the Greek islands on 29 December 2015. Poseidon Rapid Intervention replaced Joint Operation Poseidon Sea with a higher number of officers to assist the Greek authorities in border surveillance, identification and fingerprinting of arriving migrants. The deployment also includes forged document experts and ...
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2020-03-13
Yesterday, Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, deployed an additional 100 border guards at the Greek land border as part of a rapid border intervention requested by Greece.“We stand here barely a week after the Greek authorities turned to Frontex to provide more officers and more equipment to help protect their borders, which are also our common EU external borders. The presence of 100 officers from all around Europe underlines the fact that the protection of the area of the ...
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2021-07-12
The Executive Director of Frontex has agreed to launch a rapid border intervention at Lithuania’s border with Belarus to assist with the growing migration pressure. Lithuanian authorities sent an official request for a rapid border intervention to Frontex on Saturday evening. Frontex has already sent officers and equipment to Lithuania on 1 July. “The situation at Lithuania’s border with Belarus remains worrying. I have decided to send a rapid border intervention to Lithuania to strengthen EU’s ...
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2020-03-02
The Executive Director of Frontex has agreed today to launch a rapid border intervention to assist Greece in dealing with the large numbers of migrants at its external borders. The Greek government officially asked Frontex last night to launch a rapid border intervention at its sea borders in the Aegean.Rapid border interventions are designed to bring immediate assistance to an EU Member State that is under urgent and exceptional pressure at its external border, especially related to large ...
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2015-12-17
Frontex will launch Poseidon Rapid Intervention on 28 December, replacing the ongoing Joint Operation Poseidon Sea with a larger number of officers and technical equipment to support Greece in handling the unprecedented number of migrants arriving on its islands.Poseidon Rapid Intervention, which will take place in the same operational area, will also put a greater emphasis on security checks.According to the operational plan agreed by Frontex Executive Director Fabrice Leggeri and Greece late ...
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2007-11-06
First Rapid Border Intervention Teams’ Exercise has started yesterday in Porto, Portugal. The aim of the exercise is to test the new mechanism for deployment of Rapid Border Intervention Teams in real circumstances. Border Guards from 16 Member States are helping the Portuguese authorities to avert the illegal immigration threat from the fictional island of Central American Republic. The concept of Rapid Border Intervention Teams was introduced by the Regulation (EC) 863/2007 consisting in ...
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2010-10-25
Warsaw, 25 October 2010 - 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 at Greece’s external border with Turkey. This is the first time since the creation of the Agency in 2005 that Frontex has deployed the RABIT teams – a group of specialised border guards made available by 27 EU countries to deal with ...
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2015-12-04
Greece asked Frontex yesterday to launch a Rapid Border Intervention Teams (RABIT) mechanism on the Greek islands in the Aegean, where it continues to face massive migratory pressure. Frontex Executive Director Fabrice Leggeri has five working days to evaluate the situation and decide whether to activate the RABIT mechanism. The RABIT mechanism provides rapid operational assistance to a requesting member state facing urgent and exceptional migratory pressure at its external borders. If Frontex ...
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Rapid border interventions A rapid border intervention is designed to bring immediate assistance to a Member State that is under urgent and exceptional pressure at its external border, especially related to large numbers of non-EU nationals trying to enter the territory of a Member State illegally. The interventions rely on the rapid reaction pools of 1500 officers and equipment from Member States, which are required to provide them – officers and staff within five days and equipment within...
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2015-12-10
Frontex accepted today Greece’s request to deploy Rapid Border Intervention Teams (RABIT) on the Greek islands in the Aegean to assist the country in dealing with the record number of migrants coming to its shores. Following a required evaluation, Frontex Executive Director Fabrice Leggeri decided to activate the RABIT mechanism.Greece and Frontex now have five working days to agree on an operational plan to be signed by the Frontex Executive Director. The RABIT deployment requires Greece to ...
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