53 results for "Poseidon"
2017-04-19
The aim of the operation was to coordinate the EU Member States operational solidarity to render effective border security at southern-eastern EU external borders.
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2015-04-23
Frontex welcomed on Thursday the announcement by the European Council that it would triple the funding for operations in the Mediterranean Sea. The agency also thanks EU member states for their pledges to provide additional vessels and aircraft to help avoid future tragedies at sea. “I am glad to say that the number of pledged assets surpassed our expectations. These assets will contribute to the significant expansion of our operations in the Mediterranean Sea. We will increase our efforts to ...
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2015-12-29
Frontex initiated yesterday the deployment of 293 officers and 15 vessels to the Greek islands as part of a new operation called Poseidon Rapid Intervention after Greece requested additional assistance at its external borders in the Aegean earlier this month. Poseidon Rapid Intervention replaces the Joint Operation Poseidon Sea with a higher number of officers who will assist in identifying and fingerprinting of arriving migrants, along with interpreters and forged document experts. Poseidon ...
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2019-06-11
This morning at 6:45, a a Royal Netherlands Marechaussee patrol boat taking part in Frontex’s operation Poseidon detected a capsized boat northeast off Mytilene (Lesvos island) while patrolling the sea between Turkey and Greece. The Hellenic Coast Guard, in charge of coordination of Search and Rescue operations, immediately ordered seven vessels and a Super Puma helicopter to assist in the rescue. Among them was also an Italian patrol boat from Guardia di Finanza deployed by Frontex. 57 people ...
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2015-11-12
An officer on a Swedish coastal patrol boat was injured on Monday when the he tried to board a yacht near the island of Lesbos.The Swedish vessel, which is taking part in the Frontex-coordinated Operation Poseidon Sea, conducted a border control procedure in Greek coastal waters after the yacht ignored several commands to stop its engine. Following several attempts to signal the yachts to stop, it instead accelerated in the direction of Turkey. The Swedish CPB caught up with the yacht, but ...
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2010-12-07
Warsaw, December 7, 2010 — Frontex Executive Director Ilkka Laitinen signed a decision on December 3 authorising an extension of the Agency’s deployment of Rapid Border Intervention Teams (RABITs) to the Greek-Turkish land border. The RABIT deployment, initiated by a request on October 24 by Greece, was provisionally planned for two months’ duration from its initiation on November 2, 2010. The new decision extends RABIT 2010 operation until March 3, 2011. Commenting on the RABIT extension, ...
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2010-03-17
Frontex has written to the national authority of the five border guard officers involved in an incident in Mitilini, Lesvos to express its concern at their off-duty behaviour. The officers, who had been seconded to Frontex joint operation POSEIDON 2010 hosted by Greece, were involved in a violent argument with local nightclub patrons on the night of 16 March and were arrested by Greek police. “Frontex is the treasurer of best practices in all areas related to border control and all national ...
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2015-10-29
Crew members tending to children suffering from hypothermia A Norwegian vessel taking part in the Frontex-coordinated Operation Poseidon Sea played a crucial role in the rescue operation off the Greek island of Lesbos on Wednesday, saving 120 of the 242 rescued migrants. Norway’s Peter Henry Von Koss was the first to arrive at the rescue site, where more than two hundred people were floating around a sinking wooden fishing boat. The Norwegian crew immediately began rescuing people, putting them ...
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2015-08-07
A record number of 49 550 migrants have arrived in the European Union through the Greek borders in July, surpassing in a single month the number of migrants detected in the region in the entire 2014. Even though Italy continues to deal with a massive number of arriving migrants, in recent months the route through Greece has taken over as the path into the EU most affected by migration flows. In the first seven months of 2015, nearly 130 500 migrants have been detected at Greece’s external ...
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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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