The handover of a donation of specialist equipment worth 750.000 euro was carried out yesterday in Sarajevo, part of the cooperation between Germany and the Border Police of Bosnia and Herzegovina BiH. The equipment will help members of the Border Police in the more efficient protection of the border of BiH, as it was said.
The donation was presented by the German ambassador to BiH Thomas Fitschen to the director of BiH Border Police, Mirko Kupresakovic.
Kupresakovic stated that the border surveillance system belongs to the North East Field Office in Bijeljina, and the demining robot and mobile X-ray system belong to the Anti-Bomb team of the Sarajevo Airport Border Police Unit.
Fitschen said that the goal of the support from Germany is to strengthen the capacity of the Border Police.
Today s handover will mark another chapter of cooperation between the Federal Police of BiH and the Border Police of Germany. Strengthening border and migration management can only succeed in the cooperation of competent institutions and relevant agencies, according to Fitschen yesterday.