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Hungarian police to help keep order at Greek-Macedonian border

Xinhua, July 25, 2016 Adjust font size:

A 25-strong team of Hungarian police left for Macedonia on Monday, to help keep the migrant flow in check on the Greek-Macedonian border.

According to National Police Chief Karoly Papp, this is the sixth such Hungarian police team to travel to Macedonia, where it will stay for the next 30 days. The Hungarians will both patrol the border and guard check-points.

Seventy-eight Hungarian police have already served in Macedonia.

Papp also pointed out that in the past year, 270 members of the Hungarian police force have helped at borders in 10 countries. The largest number have served in Slovenia, Serbia, Macedonia and Greece, which are all along one of the dominant routes into Europe taken by asylum seekers.

Their role has been preventing unlawful border crossings while securing borders so that people with documents are able to cross.

A major aspect of their work has been identifying and halting people-smugglers, Papp said, adding that this year alone criminal proceedings in Hungary have been launched in nearly 180 people-smuggling cases. Endit