The Bavarian border police has taken in the first six months since its inception, 37 smuggling and 696 illegal Entry is detected. These Figures Bavaria's interior Minister Joachim Herrmann (CSU) announced on Monday in Munich. Directly at the border, the border police has apprehended during controls, so far only 15 people. These were handed over to the Federal police; five of them were rejected. The protection from illegal Migration, to was the purpose of the border have been established in the police originally, in the half-year statistics of the new police unit so that only a small proportion. Herrmann finds it "still makes sense", to control the border, and the deterrent ways. Overall, the Migration, go back to Bavaria and Germany.
The officials recorded a total of about 12 500 offences, traffic offences and investigation hits. Mainly persons were apprehended who have committed, for example, offences under the narcotics law, or property and assets offences. "The Bavarian border police of Bavaria and Germany safer," says Herrmann. He now wants to double the number of the Bavarian border police. Until 2023, the state government will double the staff and equipment to modernize, announced the Minister of the interior.
Since July of 2018, there are some 500 border police in Bavaria. They deal - as well as before the establishment of the unit primary with the so-called veil search, check on the main routes of transport from abroad, and travelling abroad without a specific suspicion. An agreement between the Federal government and the state of provides that you may carry out controls at the German-Austrian border, but only with the permission or at the request of the Federal government. Regardless, the border police can't act.