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EU funds will cover the salaries of more than 1200 border police officers

Ivan Demerdzhiev
Photo: BGNES

The European Commission will provide Bulgaria with funds for the technical equipment needed to guard the border with Turkey and for the salaries of more than 1,200 border police officers

This was stated by Interior Minister Ivan Demerdzhiev at the Capitan Andreevo checkpoint. The minister added that the migrant pressure at the Bulgarian-Turkish border is unprecedented. 

"Our ambition is to very quickly cover those 110 kilometres of the border that are not yet secured with the technical means of surveillance and to deploy this additional live force of 1,260 people. The Commission is ready to fund us for that as well - that is, to pay the cost of those 1,260 personnel," Demerdzhiev said. He said Bulgaria would also be provided with surveillance cameras, thermal sensors, surveillance drones, vehicles and a ship. The information was provided by BNR correspondent in Yambol Daniela Kostova.



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