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  • New investigative tools: German police receives 78 million euros for Schengen Information System

    New investigative tools: German police receives 78 million euros for Schengen Information System

    Three new EU regulations significantly expand the possibilities of the largest European police database. Four different biometric data can now be entered in SIS II. The number of storages and searches is once again increasing significantly. German authorities are among…

  • Against Migration: EU drone crashed in Crete

    Against Migration: EU drone crashed in Crete

    Frontex wants to station its own drones in the Mediterranean. Until then, the EU border agency will use a drone service provided by the Maritime Safety Agency. This service is also being expanded; numerous European governments have now ordered drone…

  • German authorities improve face recognition

    German authorities improve face recognition

    The Federal Criminal Police Office can search a database with almost 6 million facial images, the system is now being equipped with artificial intelligence Last week, the German Federal Minister of the Interior Horst Seehofer surprisingly moved away from plans…

  • New tanks for the German police

    New tanks for the German police

    The German riot police replace their armoured “Special Wagons” with a new model. A tender for 55 cars, which cost around 1.1 million euros each, will end in the summer Since 1984, federal and state police forces have been using…