Border Police Uses Recognition Device to Detect Forged Passports

Border Police Directorate at the General Directorate for National Security approved a new procedure that will come into effect soon, which is the recognition devices for biometric passports that contain electronic certificate to enable every Algerian for the free movement across the different parts of the world, and determine if it is a real or fake passport, as these devices will be distributed at the border posts in anticipation of summer season.

The new measure is applied in anticipation of the summer season, and the border police services will launch a follow up on the implementation of the new procedure, which will reduce the waiting time of travelers through airports, land or sea borders, and thanks to this procedure passengers will enter and exit automatically, highlighting that the recognition devices for biometric passports inter in the context of the modernization of the means of the General Directorate of Security.

“These new devices are imposed by the World Organization for Civil Aviation and allow the viewing of the traveler’s personal data automatically, and determine whether the passport is genuine or fake. This procedure contains the electronic certificate that the national authorities or foreign authorities should submit to enable the citizen to move freely.”

“Border Police prepared new measures for the reception of Algerian expatriates and foreigners during the summer season, after studying the shortcomings that have been recorded during the last season to rectify the matter, including the abolition of the conditional card, which reduces the waiting time, and the abolition of physical palpability.”

“10 out of 36 airports, 7 ports out of 11, and 9 land borders out of the 26 border posts were initialized. Regarding the security coordination between the Tunisian-Algerian border posts, nine border posts are mostly close, and it comes to Tebessa, Souk Ahras, El Tarf, El Kala and El Oued, as this convergence allows the exchange of security information and facilitates the transit, and study the various concerns and problems of Algerian and Tunisian citizens, referring to the project to open the border center at the request of the Tunisian authorities at the level of Bir el Ater municipality in Tebessa, which is still examined”.