Interior Minister Kalin Stoyanov today handed over the keys to 110 new all-terrain vehicles to the Border Police at an official ceremony. The vehicles were purchased with EU funding. The phased delivery of a further 200 pick-up trucks is expected to..
Bulgaria's Border Police have conducted an operation on the territory of Sofia and Pernik on the tracks of a migrant trafficking channel from the Turkish to the Romanian border. The criminal activity of the group began after the strengthening of border..
From the beginning of the year until October 31, more than 170,000 attempts by citizens from third countries to enter the country illegally were prevented, the Bulgarian Border Police reported. Over 99% of them were along the Bulgarian-Turkish..
In 2023, there is a record migrant pressure. For the first 9 months, the increase compared to 2022 is 50%, Chief Commissioner Anton Zlatanov, director of the Bulgarian Border Police, told the Bulgarian National Television. In the summer months, up to..
Bulgaria’s border police are conducting a specialized operation against drug trafficking on the territory of Blagoevgrad region, BNR’s correspondent Keti Trencheva reports. The operation targeted cannabis fields in places high up in the..
Migratory pressure along the borders of Bulgaria has gone up by over 40% since the beginning of the year , as compared to the same period of 2022, the annual analysis by the Border Police Directorate-General shows, BNR’s Nikolay Hristov reports...
An officer of the Directorate General of Border Police was arrested this evening while taking a bribe. BNR has information that the arrested person holds a managerial position in the General Directorate . According to unofficial information, the amount..
Caretaker Interior Minister Ivan Demerdzhiev will resign only if President Rumen Radev asks him to, he himself announced in Elhovo, where he attended the ceremony in memory of the border guard Petar Bachvarov who was killed on Monday. Requests for him..
A border police officer was shot dead while patrolling the border with Turkey in the region of Golyam Dervent village in the vicinity of the Lesovo- Hamzabeyli border checkpoint. The incident took place at around 8.35 on Monday night. The..
About 1,000 migrants are detained in Bulgaria every day, mainly coming from Afghanistan and Syria , Deputy Chief Secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Stanimir Stanev told Nova TV. According to him, they are extremely mobile and well..
