Even more police officers will be deployed if necessary. As well as increasing the number of patrols in areas between official border crossings and the number of administrators for migrant policing procedures, new equipment has been deployed, including fingerprint readers and transport vehicles.

Heated containers have been set up, including a health inspection station in Szeged, and tents have been borrowed from the army. Austrian and German police have also offered their help in patrolling the European Union’s external border.

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