National statistics show that 70% of passengers traveling from Romanian airports went to Schengen member countries. The head of the border police, Cornel Laurian Stoica, notes that once Romania’s air borders join this space, officers from various structures of the Ministry of Interior can carry out random inspections and check passengers’ documents using mobile terminals connected to “all relevant databases” of the national and of the Schengen zone, writes News.ro.

Figures presented on Friday night on the television show of police quaestor Cornel Laurian Stoica, who heads the border police, show that 23 million passengers transited through all 17 airports last year, with an estimated 14 million passing through Henri Coanda airport from Otopeni .

According to the same statistics, approximately 70% of passengers flew to the Schengen area, and the remaining 30% – to non-Schengen countries.

“We should know that in the zone of the Schengen terminal, in all terminals, there will be mixed patrols of policemen and gendarmes who will monitor our security. They will carry out checks based on a risk analysis if they are suspicious people, people we know are under investigation, under judicial review, etc. At the level of the Ministry of the Interior and the Border Police, together with other units, a program has been developed on a mobile terminal, actually a phone, with which my colleagues and others from other agencies can check a person’s documents and notice if the document is lost, stolen, if it is the same a person, if there is a report on a person, and when they identify that person, they take him to the second line of control to take legal action,” the border police chief told Antenna 3.

He explained that the data from the identity document of the person the teams decide to check is searched “in all relevant databases”, both national and those in the Schengen area.

Such devices will be used by border police, national police, gendarmerie and immigration officers. Romanian citizens and foreign citizens flying to non-Schengen destinations will be checked as before.

For this, flows have been created at all airports. “Practically, Romania with its airports and ports is ready to enter the Schengen area. (…) We have taken measures and are ready for more passenger traffic,” added the head of the Border Police.

From Sunday, Romania enters Schengen, but only with an air and sea border, on the condition that Austria does not give in and continues to keep our country on the land border of the European space of free movement. This means that as of March 31, people traveling to or from Schengen countries will no longer have to go through border controls at 17 airports and ports, Interior Ministry officials explained on Thursday. there will be procedures.