Security Architectures in the EU

Tag: Discreet Check

  • Schengen searches to be extended

    Schengen searches to be extended

    Persons listed in the Schengen Information System may, inter alia, be observed or searched by the police. The numbers of these Article 36 alerts are increasing rapidly and are now being explained for the first time in detail. A new category “inquiry check” is planned in the new regulation for the police database. At the […]

  • Sharp increase of secret alerts in the Schengen Information System

    Sharp increase of secret alerts in the Schengen Information System

    European police forces and secret services use SIS II for covert surveillance of persons and property. The authorities are informed about suspects’ itineraries and persons accompanying them. The EU interior ministries are now discussing the further expansion of this surveillance method. Hits could be reported to several or all member states. Secret alerts are being […]