Police union criticizes German border control
Published: Wednesday, Sep 25th 2024, 01:00
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According to the German Police Union (GdP), border controls have so far done little to limit illegal migration. According to Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland, the GdP leadership stated that the apprehension of people and smugglers was low.
As a result, there were only a small number of rejections at the western border. Since last week, checks have been carried out at all German borders in order to reduce the number of people entering the country without authorization. The checks at the land borders with Denmark, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg are new.
Checks have been carried out at the borders with Poland, the Czech Republic, Austria and Switzerland for some time, and there have also been checks at the border with France due to the Olympic Games. The measure is initially limited to six months.
The chairman of the GdP, Andreas Rosskop, said that checkpoints and main roads had simply been bypassed since the measures were introduced. The police also lack the equipment to operate as a modern investigative police force. "The failures in this area in recent years are now falling on our shoulders."
A deterrent effect of the measures is also not yet apparent. "The forwarding of protection and asylum seekers to the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees in the interior of the country remains high," says Rosskopf.
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