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Czech Republic rotates police team on Slovenian border

Xinhua, December 16, 2015 Adjust font size:

Czech Police President Tomas Tuhy said 20 Czech police officers left on Tuesday to relieve their colleagues from duty who had been helping protect the Schengen outer border in Slovenia.

He said the police mission is planned until mid-January, 2016.

The first group of 20 Czech police left for the Slovenian-Croatian border on Nov. 9. They have operated in the surrounding areas of the towns of Dobova and Obrezje in mixed Czech-Slovenian patrols.

The commander of the new Czech police team, Tomas Kudlacek, said their mission would be protecting the green border, performing security searches of refugees arriving in Slovenia, and accompanying refugees on trains to the Austrian border.

The mission of the Czech police team that has helped protect the EU border in Hungary ended on Tuesday because the situation in the area has calmed down of late.

Tuhy said the Czech police's presence on the Schengen border is not merely symbolic. He said the police assist in detaining foreigners and registering them on the border every day, handling almost one thousand refugees per day. Endit