Two separate Hungarian police units have been dispatched to serve along the border of Serbia and North Macedonia, the national police headquarters (ORFK) said.
The 20-strong unit serving in Serbia and the 30-strong unit in North Macedonia will be tasked with border patrol duties, and surveilling illegal migrants and people smugglers. They will also be dispatched in the central areas of the two countries, ORFK said in a statement. They will carry out their task with infrared hand and mobile cameras and SUVs. Hungarian police are committed towards the task to prevent the entry of illegal migrants into Hungary and the European Union, and have offered dispatching the units to help achieve this goal, the statement said. The two units were bid farewell in a ceremony in Budapest on Tuesday, it said.
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