During the period 01.01-31.01.2025, during the first month after integration into the Schengen Area with land borders, border guards carried out over 260,000 checks in the eDAC application during random checks carried out in the area of competence, together with colleagues from the Police, Gendarmerie, Immigration, ANAF or other structures with competence within the 30 km limit.
Starting with January 1, 2025, with Romania's full accession to Schengen, internal border control, respectively at the border with Hungary and Bulgaria, has been eliminated, so people traveling from this date within the Schengen area do so without stopping at the Border Police control booths to check their travel documents.
Romanian border police continue to aim to protect citizens and carry out random and unsystematic checks on communication routes at the internal border or at various road junctions.
Thus, border guards carried out over 260,000 checks in the eDAC application, and at the level of internal border structures (territorial inspectorates of the Border Guard of Giurgiu, Oradea, Sighetu Marmației and the Coast Guard), persons from third countries who did not have the right to travel in the Schengen area were discovered, with 142 crimes and 111 contraventions being recorded, as follows:
- At the TIBP Oradea level, 71 criminal acts were registered, of which 28 were for violating the legal regime of the state border. Also, 84 foreign citizens were discovered who did not have the right to travel in the Schengen area. One of these cases is the one in which nine foreign citizens were discovered who did not have a valid visa or residence permit to travel in the Schengen area. Details at:https://www.politiadefrontiera.ro/ro/main/i-noua-citateni-straini-depistati-de-politistii-de-frontiera-fara-documente-care-sa-le-permita-sa-calatoreasca-in-spatiul-schengen-39078.htmlAt the same time, 4 cars were discovered that appeared in the databases as "goods wanted for confiscation", the most recent situation being on January 24:https://www.politiadefrontiera.ro/ro/oradea/i--39144.html
- At the TIBP Giurgiu level, 50 criminal acts and 64 minor offences were registered, sanctioned with fines worth 10,650 lei, over 5,400 goods detained for confiscation, worth approximately 2.5 million lei. At the same time, over 320,000 cigarettes transported without documents, hidden and undeclared, were discovered, an example of this kind is the one from 09.01.2025:https://www.politiadefrontiera.ro/ro/giurgiu/i-zeci-de-mii-de-contrabanda-cigarettes-discovered-pe-comunicatilie-rutiere-din-approierea-frontierei-cu-bulgaria-39028.html
- At the TIBP Sighetu Marmației level – Territorial Service of PF Satu Mare – 8 crimes and 5 contraventions were registered. The most significant case is the one in which 1,350,000 cigarettes were discovered hidden in a truck loaded with cabbage that presented itself at BCP Petea (https://www.politiadefrontiera.ro/ro/sighetu-marmatiei/i-zeci-de-mii-de-pachete-cu-tigari-in-voare-de-peste-13-milioane-lei-discovered-hidden-intrun-camion-incarcat-cu-varza-39160.html)
- At the Coast Guard level, 13 crimes and 24 misdemeanors were recorded in the area of competence, with 23,600 cigarettes being detained for confiscation.
At the same time, specific missions were also carried out, together with workers from the National Police, Gendarmerie, Immigration or ANAF, of the "BLITZ" type, in the main communication nodes leading to/from border crossing points, in order to establish the validity of the travel conditions and travel documents of persons in traffic.
An example of this is the action of January 3, 2025, when controls were carried out in an integrated system, with mixed teams checking over 3,600 people, in over 1,800 cars, 16 buses, 239 trucks and 161 minibuses. Details at:https://www.politiadefrontiera.ro/ro/main/i-rezultatele-actiunii-in-sistem-integrat--blitz-2025-38983.html
At the same time, joint actions are periodically held with the authorities of the neighboring Schengen countries – Hungary and Bulgaria – in order to intensify cooperation actions at the common border. These joint actions are based on an exchange of information between institutions and contribute to increasing the level of citizen safety, in compliance with Schengen legislation.
A significant result in this regard is the discovery of the 15 migrants discovered on January 29, in the parking lot near the toll station of the Calafat-Vidin bridge, who did not have the necessary documents to travel to the Schengen area. Details at:https://www.politiadefrontiera.ro/ro/giurgiu/i-cincinsprezece-citateni-straini-fara-documente-valabile-pentru-a-calatori-in-spatiul-schengen-depistati-de-poliististii-de-frontiera-39168.html
Following Romania's full accession to the Schengen Area, the Border Police continues to act based on risk analyses to ensure security at the country's borders.
