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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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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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2017-04-30
Aim of Joint Operation EPN Poseidon Sea 2015 was to implement coordinated operational activities at the external sea borders of the Eastern Mediterranean region in order to control irregular migration flows towards the territory of the Member States of the European Union and to tackle cross border crime.
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2017-04-16
It was the first ever deployment of Rapid Border Intervention Teams (RABITs) - Frontex’s rapid response capability.
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2008-10-29
“Dacia 2008”, a ten-day-long exercise of Rapid Border Intervention Teams (RABIT) concluded today. Coordinated by Frontex, it was carried out on the border between Romania and Moldova. The primary aim of the exercise was to test the management of the RABIT Teams deployment mechanism providing assistance to Member States faced with “urgent and exceptional situations” such as arrivals of a large number of third-country nationals trying to enter their territory illegally. A total of 49 RABITs - ...
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2020-03-03
The Frontex Management Board, which is holding an extraordinary meeting today in Frontex headquarters in Warsaw, has agreed that the Agency: fully supports Greece in addressing the current situation at its external borders towards Turkey and to act in the spirit of European solidarity;deploys the rapid border intervention requested by Greece and decided by the Executive Director. Member States confirm their readiness to provide their respective mandatory contributions under the Rapid Reaction ...
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2021-12-09
Today, on the margins of the Justice and Home Affairs Council, Frontex Executive Director Fabrice Leggeri signed an agreement with Lithuania’s Minister of Interior Agnė Bilotaitė to deploy Frontex standing corps officers equipped with service weapons provided by Lithuania. The agreement has been signed in the presence of EU Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson and Slovenia’s Minister of Interior Aleš Hojs. “This is a historic step for the standing corps and the European Union,” said ...
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2011-10-27
The Frontex Evaluation Report on the deployment of Rapid Border Intervention Teams (RABITs) to the Greek-Turkish land border in 2010 is now publically available. Joint Operation RABIT 2010 was the first deployment of its type and its evaluation is a crucial element in maintaining Frontex’s preparedness for rapid response to emergency situations at the EU’s external borders. The scale and speed of the deployment — in terms of both human and technical resources — was unprecedented in the Agency’s ...
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2016-03-06
Frontex and NATO have reached a common understanding on the form of their cooperation in the Aegean Sea. While Frontex will continue to operate in the Aegean in the framework of operation Poseidon Rapid Intervention, the two organisations will exchange information in real time. Frontex currently deploys 14 vessels and two helicopters in the Aegean, which support Greek authorities in border surveillance, detection of migrants and search and rescue operations. In total, Frontex has 739 officers, ...
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