Border Police Directorate

The Main Directorate "Border Police" has announced a recruitment drive for 400 new employees. This is part of a larger effort to fill an additional 1,264 positions within the police force that have recently been approved.

BELGRADE - Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dacic said on Friday a new German donation of vehicles and equipment would help Serbia's border police perform their daily tasks and border control and surveillance even more efficiently in the future.

Dacic said this after the donation was handed over to the Border Police Directorate.

For a second day a freight traffic towards Turkey has been intense the Border Police Directorate reported, quoted by BNR. The queue of trucks in the direction of Turkey at the border checkpoint of Kapitan Andreevo has reached 6 km, while the queue at the Lesovo checkpoint is 3 km long.

Border crossings of Horgos and Backi Vinogradi with Hungary in northern Serbia have been closed.

The Automobile and Motorcycle Association of Serbia (AMSS) announced this on Wednesday morning, quoting the Border Police Directorate.

Most asylum seekers from Serbia travel to Germany

BELGRADE -- Citizens of Serbia most often seek asylum in Germany, Jelena Vasiljevic, assistant to the Border Police Directorate head, stated on Thursday.

BELGRADE - Citizens of Serbia most often seek asylum in Germany, Jelena Vasiljevic, assistant to the Border Police Directorate head, stated on Thursday.

Vasiljevic told Belgrade-based TV Pink that according to the 2014 data around 16,000 citizens of Serbia have sought asylum in Germany, around 1,500 in Sweden and around a hundred in the territories of Belgium and Switzerland.

Gendarmerie gets new commander - unofficial

BELGRADE -- B92 has unofficially learned that the new commander of the MUP Gendarmerie (Zandarmerija) will be Goran Dragovic.

Dragovic until now served as commander of MUP's Counter-Terrorist Unit (PTJ).

An attempted smuggling of skimming devices has been prevented at Bulgaria's border checkpoint Vidin - Danube Bridge, the press center of the Interior Ministry said.

The electronic devices have been seized from a Bulgarian registered car in a joint operation conducted on July 10 by the Border Police Directorate, State Agency National Security (DANS) and the Customs office in Vidin.