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Netherlands to apply extra border controls

Xinhua, September 14, 2015 Adjust font size:

The Netherlands announced Monday afternoon that it would implement extra border controls as the number of refugees reaching the country has surged in past weeks.

Mobile teams of the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee (or gendarmerie force) are going to carry out extra border controls, announced Dutch state secretary for security and justice, Klaas Dijkhoff, at the European extraordinary meeting to discuss the immigration crisis.

"We are not going to stop everyone at the border. This measure consists of more frequent checks in the border region and more people being picked out to be checked," said Dijkhoff at the meeting in Brussels.

He added that the extra border controls were a method of quickly checking whether the flood of refugees was moving towards the Netherlands. "If that is the case, we will consider whether or not additional measures should be taken," he said.

The Royal Netherlands Marechaussee is one of four services of the armed forces of the Netherlands. The gendarmerie force performs both military police and civil police duties.

Last week, about 3,100 refugees registered at the application center in the northern Dutch city of Ter Apel, according to figures from the Dutch "Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers (COA)".

On Sunday, Germany introduced temporary border controls at its border with Austria after more than 13,000 migrants arrived in Munich on Saturday. Endit