POLICY REPORT ON IMMIGRATION AND ASYLUM IN LATVIA ...

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• operational – tactical training organised by the State Border Guard "RONIS 2010",
purpose of the training: examination of the readiness of crew change of the State Border Guard
ship vessels at the base location and at sea (exercise of examination of the readiness of ship
vessel K-3), as well as improvement of the cooperation quality with cooperation structural
units, namely, detection of violators of ship and speed boats by the use of the Sea Video
Surveillance System, mobile surveillance kit and radar system, pursuance and detention of a
suspicious vessel, examination of a vessel and a speedboat at sea, delivery of a detained vessel
to port, people search and rescue activities, transportation of a victim to hospital, application of
procedural measures to detained persons and detained vessels;
• tactical trainings organized by the State Border Guard on land external borders, purpose
of the training: improve the methodology for detection and detaining of trespassers and illegal
immigrants, methods and mutual cooperation among the structural units of the State Border
Guard, as well as improve the cooperation between the territorial administration of the State
Border Guard and the Aviation Administration of the State Border Guard;
• international operation on the Latvian – Russian and Latvian – Belarusian borders
"UNITY".
Funds for protection of the state borders in 2010 were reduced in proportion to the
decreased budget totally allocated to the State Border Guard. 127
In 2010, new border control technological means were not purchase By taking into
account the scopes of the European Border Surveillance Systems (EUROSUR and
MARSUNO), the existing systems will be improved in the future that will be used in the sea
border surveillance and in specific cases they will be integrated within a common information
network. By introducing the European Union entry/return and the European Union registered
travellers’ system, it will be necessary to ensure the link to the national border crossing
system. 128
The State Border Guard participates in working parties organized by FRONTEX which
discuss matters of the introduction of the Automated Border Control System 129 in their
countries, as well as the use of other technologies for the improvement of border examination
process. The State Border Guard has included in its development plans the possibility to
introduce the Automated Border Control System in cooperation with Riga Airport, as well as
develop other technologies in 2014.
127 Information provided by officials of the State Border Guard.
128 Information provided by officials of the State Border Guard.
129 Automated Border Crossing Systems.