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Exercises scheduled for Czech police to handle migration wave

Xinhua, March 8, 2016 Adjust font size:

Czech police will hold two exercises in the Central Bohemian Region to check its readiness to tackle a possible stronger migration wave, Czech Interior Minister Milan Chovanec and regional governor Milos Petera announced on Monday.

Police officers will be trained to carry out border checks in the first exercise, which is scheduled to be held on April 12. The second exercise in September will focus on the protection of water sources, in addition to strategies and skills to handle migration wave. Police from two neighbouring regions are expected to join the second exercise.

Petera said that the Zelivka water reservoir, the largest in the Czech Republic which supplies water to the country's capital Prague, is located at the Central Bohemian Region, an area surrounding Prague.

Chovanec said part of the training would include the warning system against terrorism, which was introduced by the country recently.

It is necessary to get prepared for a possible stronger migration wave. Police would have to take over, register and return the migrants to the countries from where they came, he said.

Chovanec said further measures would have to be taken if the migration situation dramatically worsened. Enditem