The ministry has also won authorisation to take on 191 new policemen to guard the camps, with provisions to be made to secure the number by increasing capacities in police training schools.

Although the training of new personnel will take two years before they can enter into service, Until then, the police force will provide for the increased number by regrouping personnel to serve at the camps.

Under a recent cabinet decision, the framework sum to be spent on building the 175-kilometre fence on the border with Serbia and other expenditures concerning refugees, including the creation of new jobs for security guards and policemen.

Both the 850-inhabitant village of Sormás in Zala county and Martonfa in Baranya county, population 220, are protesting against the establishment of new temporary refugee reception centres on their outskirts.

The new migrant registration and distribution centre at the town of Kiskunhalas in the south the country, to be set up in a former Soviet barracks, is on the edge of the town but still on inhabited area, despite the Ministry of Interior previously claiming that camps operating within settlements will be shut down and replaced by tent camps outside inhabited areas.

Source: hungarytoday.hu

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