The training was directed at people from Foreigners’ Departments of the Border Guard that conduct the duties related to identification and readmission of foreigners, as well as at those officers directly involved in the procedures of return operations.
During the event the participants familiarised with methods of identifying foreigners and obtained knowledge about specifying the foreigner’s country of origin, methods and techniques of conducting interviews with foreigners and gathering evidence for the purposes of identification procedures. Furthermore they had the possibility to get familiar with bilateral readmission agreement and documents issued to foreigners during the return procedures.
The course has been carried out with the support of experts from the Office for Foreigners and Border Guard Board for Foreigners.
The participants of the course were the officers from various Border Guard Regional Units, the representatives of the Office for Foreigners and Regional Government Offices.
The training was co-financed in the frames of Norway Grants project No. 26/ NMF PL 15/14.