Bosnia's Border Police need 1,100 more officers to fully cover the 600-kilometre long eastern border, which is targeted by the illegal migrants, said Border Police chief Zoran Galic.

“We lack 407 officers to perform regular activities and tasks, and for a 24-hour long coverage of the 600-kilometre long eastern state border we need 1,100 more officers while only 15 percent of the officers who currently work in the Border Police are capable of supervising the border belt because 85 percent of them has been engaged at the border crossings which we cannot leave unsupervised,” said Galic who visited the Border Police units in the east and the northeast of the country.

According to him, the police officers who are continuously engaged have started expressing dissatisfaction over the working conditions and the payment, which led many of them to leave the service.

“The conditions in which the Bosnia's Border Police officers have been working since 2017 while exercising enhanced measures with maximum efforts are, I can openly say, a disgrace for the whole Bosnia and Herzegovina,” he stressed, adding that infrastructure at some of those border crossings is very bad.

Despite all the problems, the police officers are still putting maximum efforts, preventing hundreds of illegal attempts of crossing the state border.