STA, 9 March 2020 - Due to a spike in illegal migration across the Slovenian-Croatian border, the Ormož police station in the north-east of the country will get six new containers to process migrants.
The Maribor Police Department has underscored that the new container units, to become operational on Tuesday, will not be used for migrants' accommodation.
In a press release, the department noted that the number of cases of people illegally crossing the border into Slovenia rose by 73% last year with the cases in the region under its jurisdiction increasing nearly three-fold to 1,449.
The new containers are being supplied in order to organise work more efficiently and to ensure safety at work, the release reads.
"The containers are intended exclusively for handling and police detention of groups of persons who cross the state border illegally in the Maribor Police Department area, and will in no case serve to accommodate migrants."
Similar container units had in the past been placed in the areas under the jurisdiction of the police departments of Novo Mesto, Ljubljana and Koper.
