287 result(s) for police unit
Dispatches: Stranded In Budapest’s Train Station
- 4 Sep 2015 12:00 PM
- current affairs
By Lydia Gall: “Why are they lying to us? Why did police tell me that the train will go to Germany when it will really go to [a] camp?” asked Mohammed, 34, from Syria, when I told him that the train he was about to board this morning was not heading to Austria and Germany but to a processing center outside Budapest.
Hungarian, Slovenian Presidents Urge European Solution To Migration
- 4 Sep 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
No single country is able to resolve the problems connected with migration; a joint European solution is needed, President János Áder said after meeting Slovene counterpart Borut Pahor. Áder said the migration wave is primarily a humanitarian problem because it is necessary to get people safe before the start of winter. Additionally, there is a criminal problem because human smugglers ...
Xpat Opinion: Hungarian Government Plans To Reintroduce Border Patrols
- 30 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Columnists on Left and Right discuss the government’s plan to criminalize illegal border crossing and to deploy special police units in order to patrol the frontiers and keep illegal migrants out. Last week, János Lázár, the Cabinet Minister in charge of the Prime Minister’s office, announced the government’s plans to deploy special police border guard squads to its frontier with Serbia in order ...
Jobbik, Socialists Each Make Proposals For Hungarian Border Crisis Management
- 27 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The radical nationalist Jobbik party has proposed amending the constitution so that the armed forces can be mobilised without any legal uncertainties to protect Hungary’s border. The Socialists, on the other hand, called for setting up more reception centres and speeding up asylum procedures on site. “Hungary should make it clear that it does not allow illegal migrants to cross its territory and ...
Jobbik Calls Hungarian Govt Plans For Border Police “Bluff”
- 19 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The government’s plans to set up border police units to prevent illegal migrants from entering Hungary are not even sufficient to be called “displacement activity” and can only be interpreted as “bluff”, the radical nationalist Jobbik party said. Party spokesman Ádám Mirkóczki said that instead of setting up teams within the existing police force to work along the southern borders, a dedicated ...
Hungarian Socialists Say Orbán Admitted Border Fence Ineffective
- 19 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The plan to set up border police units shows that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his government have admitted the ineffectiveness of Hungary’s border fence being built at a cost of 22 billion forints (EUR 70m), the opposition Socialists said. Deputy group leader Bertalan Tóth said that the “illegal border fence” is part of a “very expensive political circus” that only serves to conceal the ...
British Authorities Extradite Drug Dealer To Hungary
- 27 Jul 2015 4:00 AM
- current affairs
British authorities have recently extradited to Hungary a Briton suspected of running a drug business in Budapest earlier, national police reported. According to charges, the 45-year-old man produced drugs in a lab in northern Budapest between 2010 and 2012, the police said on its website. The suspect mailed the drugs to clients mostly in the United States and Australia.
US State Dept Official Praises Budapest ILEA At 20th Anniversary
- 20 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The operation of the International Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA) in Budapest has been “a success story” over the past 20 years, which was mainly due to support by the Hungarian government, a senior official of the US State Department said in Budapest. William R. Brownfield, Assistant Secretary at the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, said that the United States had ...
Synthetic Drugs: Hungary Is Sitting On A Ticking Time Bomb
- 13 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
- health & wellness
The recent disturbing rise in the consumption of cheap and unregulated substances known as “designer drugs”, which have recetly resulted in several deaths across the country, could mean that Hungary is sitting on a ticking time bomb and the country is on the edge of a new type of public health crisis, journalist Csaba Lukács writes in the daily newspaper Magyar Nemzet.
Dispatches: Stranded In Budapest’s Train Station
- 4 Sep 2015 12:00 PM
- current affairs
By Lydia Gall: “Why are they lying to us? Why did police tell me that the train will go to Germany when it will really go to [a] camp?” asked Mohammed, 34, from Syria, when I told him that the train he was about to board this morning was not heading to Austria and Germany but to a processing center outside Budapest.
Hungarian, Slovenian Presidents Urge European Solution To Migration
- 4 Sep 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
No single country is able to resolve the problems connected with migration; a joint European solution is needed, President János Áder said after meeting Slovene counterpart Borut Pahor. Áder said the migration wave is primarily a humanitarian problem because it is necessary to get people safe before the start of winter. Additionally, there is a criminal problem because human smugglers ...
Xpat Opinion: Hungarian Government Plans To Reintroduce Border Patrols
- 30 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Columnists on Left and Right discuss the government’s plan to criminalize illegal border crossing and to deploy special police units in order to patrol the frontiers and keep illegal migrants out. Last week, János Lázár, the Cabinet Minister in charge of the Prime Minister’s office, announced the government’s plans to deploy special police border guard squads to its frontier with Serbia in order ...
Jobbik, Socialists Each Make Proposals For Hungarian Border Crisis Management
- 27 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The radical nationalist Jobbik party has proposed amending the constitution so that the armed forces can be mobilised without any legal uncertainties to protect Hungary’s border. The Socialists, on the other hand, called for setting up more reception centres and speeding up asylum procedures on site. “Hungary should make it clear that it does not allow illegal migrants to cross its territory and ...
Jobbik Calls Hungarian Govt Plans For Border Police “Bluff”
- 19 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The government’s plans to set up border police units to prevent illegal migrants from entering Hungary are not even sufficient to be called “displacement activity” and can only be interpreted as “bluff”, the radical nationalist Jobbik party said. Party spokesman Ádám Mirkóczki said that instead of setting up teams within the existing police force to work along the southern borders, a dedicated ...
Hungarian Socialists Say Orbán Admitted Border Fence Ineffective
- 19 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The plan to set up border police units shows that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his government have admitted the ineffectiveness of Hungary’s border fence being built at a cost of 22 billion forints (EUR 70m), the opposition Socialists said. Deputy group leader Bertalan Tóth said that the “illegal border fence” is part of a “very expensive political circus” that only serves to conceal the ...
British Authorities Extradite Drug Dealer To Hungary
- 27 Jul 2015 4:00 AM
- current affairs
British authorities have recently extradited to Hungary a Briton suspected of running a drug business in Budapest earlier, national police reported. According to charges, the 45-year-old man produced drugs in a lab in northern Budapest between 2010 and 2012, the police said on its website. The suspect mailed the drugs to clients mostly in the United States and Australia.
US State Dept Official Praises Budapest ILEA At 20th Anniversary
- 20 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The operation of the International Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA) in Budapest has been “a success story” over the past 20 years, which was mainly due to support by the Hungarian government, a senior official of the US State Department said in Budapest. William R. Brownfield, Assistant Secretary at the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, said that the United States had ...
Synthetic Drugs: Hungary Is Sitting On A Ticking Time Bomb
- 13 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
- health & wellness
The recent disturbing rise in the consumption of cheap and unregulated substances known as “designer drugs”, which have recetly resulted in several deaths across the country, could mean that Hungary is sitting on a ticking time bomb and the country is on the edge of a new type of public health crisis, journalist Csaba Lukács writes in the daily newspaper Magyar Nemzet.