DZIALANIA STRAZY GRANICZNEJ NA POLSKO BIALORUSKIM ODCINKU GRANICY PANSTWOWEJ

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Polish Border Guard National Headquarters Al.
Niepodleglosci 100 02-514 Warsaw
EURO 2012 Safe and friendly border, cooperation
with Ukraine
BG col. Zbigniew PLATER-ZYBERK
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Main tasks of the Border Guard

• protection of the state border,
• organization and performance of border traffic
  control,
• fighting border crimes and pursuing perpetrators,
• ensuring security in international transport and
  in border crossing points as well as public order
  in the border zone,
• maintaining security on board of passenger
  aircraft,
• securing main international transport roads
  against crimes which are in the scope of BG
  responsibility,
• performing activities, including intelligence, to
  recognize and prevent terrorist threats,
• counteracting and pursuing perpetrators of crimes
  against public security, against security in
  aviation, security at border crossing points and
  international transport,
• preventing transportation of harmful chemical
  substances, nuclear and radioactive materials,
  weapons, ammunition and explosives across the
  borders without a proper permit.

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ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE OF THE BORDER GUARD
Ministry of Interior
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The role of the state institutions during EURO
2012

• The Final European Football Championships UEFA
  EURO 2012, organized in Poland and in Ukraine,
  was for both countries, the sport event of the
  unprecedented range.
• According to the Tournaments motto Have fun
  feel safe, all Polish and Ukrainian law
  enforcement institutions, responsible for safety
  and security of football fans coming to our
  countries, has performed their duties at theirs
  best, making this event secure and really fun for
  the visitors.
• During EURO 2012 Polish Border Guards main duty
  was ensuring the fluent border traffic and
  safeguarding the external EU border security. The
  other important task was to protect the Polish
  (that means EU) territory against individuals
  or groups generating potential threat to the
  security of the country and its guest.
• These aims were reached in the close co-operation
  with Polish and international law enforcement
  organizations, including the FRONTEX Agency.

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The major tasks of the Border Guard during EURO
2012

1. Adjusting the organization of the border control
   system in the Border Crossing Points to the
   increased traffic on the Polish-Ukrainian Border
   with the close cooperation with Polish Customs
   Office and Ukrainian partners (special EURO 2012
   Lines for football fans and tourist with nothing
   to declare for the customs control
   one-stop-border-control of Polish and Ukrainian
   border and customs services on polish part of
   the BCPs).
2. Temporal re-introducing of the border control on
   the internal borders of the Schengen area.
3. Organizing, together with the FRONTEX Agency,
   Joint Operation EUROCUP 2012.
4. To set up the Commanding Centre of Operation
   BORDER 2012 in the BG Headquarters (on the
   basis of the BG HQ Duty Service). The similar
   centers were established in the BG Regional
   Units HQ.
5. Establishing the BG Point of Contact in the
   Police Commanding Centre (PCC) in the Police
   Academy in Legionowo (near Warsaw) and in the
   Ministry of Interior/ Ministry of Administration
   Operational Commanding Centre.
6. Intensification of cooperation with the Border
   Guards liaison officers (in Kiev, Moscow and
   Berlin) and liaison officers of the foreign law
   enforcement agencies, accredited in Poland.
7. Conducting the current close cooperation with the
   proper Polish law enforcement organizations, both
   during the preparatory stage, and during the
   Tournament.

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Border Guard in the state security SYSTEM during
EURO 2012
OPERATION BORDER 2012 COMMANDING CENTRE OF THE
BORDER GUARD HQ
OPERATION EURO 2012 COMMANDING CENTRE OF THE BG
REGIONAL UNIT HQ
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Border Guards role in the international
cooperation during EURO 2012
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The Polish-Ukrainian working group on security of
EURO 2012

• Important role in coordination of the
  preparations to the Tournament played, among
  others, The Polish-Ukrainian working group on
  security of EURO 2012. This bodys activities was
  aimed at infrastructural and organizational
  adjustment to the expected increase of the border
  traffic and other challenges for all law
  enforcement and security services and
  institutions.

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The Common Analytical Report

• In 2011 the Polish and Ukrainian Border Guard
  have elaborated The Common Analytical Report on
  threats and risks before and during the
  Championships EURO 2012. Report presented the
  most important threats and risks which could
  affect the border traffic and raise the
  trans-border crimes on the Polish-Ukrainian
  Border.
• This unprecedented enterprise was aimed at the
  proper preparations for ensuring the fluent
  border traffic and the security during EURO.

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Ensuring the fluent border trafic for the
football fans during EURO 2012

• In close cooperation with Polish Customs Office
  and Ukrainian partners of the border and customs
  services there were implemented the special means
  of adjusting the organization of the traffic in
  the Border Crossing Points to the increased
  traffic on the Polish-Ukrainian Border, among
  others
• The special Green Lines (similar to the
  airports), established in the land BCPs for the
  passengers who have nothing to declare for the
  customs control, have been changed during
  Tournament into EURO 2012 Lines for the
  football fans. The time of crossing the border
  along these lines has shortened about 4-5 times
  than on the ordinary lines.

• Rapid reaction of the border services to the
  currant situation in the BCP (re-organization of
  the passengers traffic and of the
  border/customs-control staff).

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BCPKorczowa
UA
PL
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Ensuring the fluent border trafic for the
football fans during EURO 2012

• Organizing the one-stop-border-control, on the
  Polish part of the biggest BCPs on
  Polish-Ukrainian border.
• The idea of this solution was to perform the
  passport and customs control on polish side of
  border crossing by Polish and Ukrainian border
  and customs officers at one stop of the car or
  bus. It was performed permanently in both
  directions of the border traffic on each line of
  passengers control.

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Ensuring the fluent border trafic for the
football fans during EURO 2012

• Another solution agreed between Polish and
  Ukrainian border authorities (Commander-In-Chiefs)
  was temporary opening for passengers traffic
  only cars and busses the new BCP
  Dolhobyczów-Uhrynow which is still during
  construction. Border control was performed by
  border services of both countries (with the use
  of mobile control-terminals) on polish side of
  the border.
• This BCP was operating between June 5th and July
  4th 2012 . It was dedicated mostly for Small
  Border Traffic (people living in both countries
  within the area of 30 km from the border line).

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Improving the Polish-Ukrainian border security

• The Agreement on the common patrols of Polish and
  Ukrainian border guards (signed in Lvov on
  December 8th 2010) started the new era of their
  cooperation. From the beginning of 2011 the mixed
  patrols of the both services improved the
  security of the Polish-Ukrainian Border. During
  EURO 2012 those patrols have performed their
  duties not only on the green border, but also,
  among others
• they helped to properly manage the cars/buses
  traffic approaching the border control,
• they informed about the rules of border crossing
  (esp. for the football fans).
• they ensured the security in the border crossing
  points area.
• During EURO 2012 there were 75 common patrols (on
  Polish and Ukrainian territory) mostly on the
  roads guiding to the BCPs.

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The border traffic during EURO 2012

• In April 2012 the Border Guard HQ has elaborated
  The prognosis of the border traffic during first
  stage of the Championships EURO 2012. According
  to our assessment the expected border movement
  will be approx. 530 thousands of people
  (including transit movement 7.200 persons).
• On the external borders there was following
  movement 2,74 mln persons (1.360.000 into
  Poland, 1.380.000 out of Poland). Foreigners
  composed about 66,7 of the total movement.
• The border with Ukraine was crossed by 1,05 mln
  persons (into PL 528.000, from PL 521.000).
  The biggest traffic increase was in the days of
  the matches in Ukraine (esp. Lvov) from PL ca
  5-6 hours before the match, return to PL ca 2-3
  hours after the match.
• The air border (in the host-cities) has crossed
  580.000 passengers (into PL 285.000, out of PL
  295.000). The biggest traffic was in
  Warszawa-Okecie BCP (277.000 passengers).

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Frontex Joint Operation EUROCUP 2012

• PL Border Guard has organized, together with the
  FRONTEX Agency, the Joint Operation EUROCUP
  2012 (similarly as in 2008 in Austria/Switzerland
  ).
• In the JO EUROCUP 2012 took part 139 officers
  of the border services 97 from 24 EU states 10
  from the 3rd countries (Ukraine, Russia, Croatia)
  as observers 1 Polish BG was deployed in Kiyv
  3 Polish BG in Frontex Situation Centre 20 EU
  officers were deployed in the 11 main airports in
  the countries, which were taking part in the
  Tournament.
• Most of this officers were deployed on the
  external land broder (green border and BCPs) and
  in the biggest Polish airport in Warsaw.

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Frontex Joint Operation EUROCUP 2012 - effects

• Strengthening of BG resources (human end
  technical equipment)
• linguistic support in contacts with foreigners
• preventive role of the presence of foreigners
  officers against aggressive behavior in BCPs of
  football fans
• cooperation of European border guards in border
  control (esp. of their countryman) make the
  Tournaments guests feeling like at home.
• With the support of guest-officers there was
  apprehended 18 persons (for different reasons)
  and refused entry into Polish territory 150
  foreigners.

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Temporal re-introduction of the border control on
the internal borders

• The temporal re-introduction of the border
  control was established from 4th June till 1st
  July 2012 r. The legal basis for this was The
  Ministry of Interior Decree from May 17th 2012 on
  temporal re-introduction of the border control of
  persons crossing the state border, which is the
  internal border. The decree established 254
  places for crossing the border on each part of
  internal border.
• The Border Guards officers has performed their
  duties with mobile systems of control, in close
  cooperation with other Polish services (Police,
  Road Transportation Inspection, Fire Brigades,
  Military Police and others). Selection of cars to
  be controlled was built on the profiling
  performed by common patrols of the Polish and
  neighboring border officers mostly on the other
  side of the border. Such performance of border
  control didn't affected the fluent traffic across
  the border.

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Temporal re-introduction of the border control on
the internal borders effects

• The first and most important effect is prevention
  and monitoring of foreigners entering our country
  with the aims to take part in EURO 2012.
• During the whole period of re-introduction of the
  border control , BG has controlled 28.890
  individuals, travelling by 7.954 cars/busses, 221
  airplanes, 19 trains and 5 ferries. 98,67 of
  persons submitted to the control, were
  foreigners. On each part of the state border, the
  control was performed in the temporal border
  crossings (BCPs)
• Czech Republic 8 BCPs 15.655 persons, 3.289
  cars,
• Germany 4 BCPs 8.625 persons, 3.105 cars,
• Lithuania 2 BCPs 1.806 persons, 693 cars,
• air 6 BCPs 1.759 persons,
• Slovakia 2 BCPs 1.061 persons, 130 cars,
• sea 2 BCPs 74 persons.
• During this duties there have been apprehended
  (stopped) 14 foreigners (including 8 - for
  attempts of illegal crossing the border and 2 -
  for the drugs possession).
• The 22 foreigners were granted the refusal of
  entry the Polish territory.

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Other duties of the Border Guard

• Bearing in mind fact that Border Guard is
  experienced in preventing transportation (through
  the border) of nuclear and radioactive materials,
  its officers were taking part in prevention the
  CBRN threats in close cooperation with the
  municipal authorities.
• Border Guards were responsible for radiometric
  security on stadiums in Warsaw and Wroclaw, and
  in the official fan-zones in Warsaw, Gdansk and
  Wroclaw.

The role of Border Guards in this area on the
stadiums was to perform the second line of
radiological control in case of alerts of
personal detectors (PRDs) of persons controlling
fans entering the stadium through the gates
(verification of this alerts). In the case of
fan-zones, the Border Guard officers kept the
duty services during the matches, ready to
perform the radiometric recognition in case of
any incidents of this kind of alerts (there was
not necessary to do some intervention).
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Other duties of the Border Guard

• The Border Guard also cooperated with the
  Government Protection Bureau (BOR) in the field
  of pirometric recognition of the VIP-zones on
  stadiums in Poznan and Wroclaw, and of the hotels
  in which lived the persons protected by BOR.
• The other field of cooperation was participation
  of the Border Guards Aviation in the aerial
  protection of the flight-restricted area in
  Gdansk.
• Our planes performed 2 flights in the match-days
  and kept the duty services (24/7) during EURO of
  its crew in 10-minutes readiness to start.

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Thank you for your attention
BG col. Zbigniew PLATER-ZYBERK Border Guard
Command Centre zbigniew.plater_at_strazgraniczna.pl t
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