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IDENTIFICATION OF RETURNEES -PROJECT(POSID -PROJECT)
SISEKAITSEAKADEEMIAN15.05.2014TALLINMIKKO SIVOLAHELSINKI POLICE
CO-FINANCED BY THE EU RETURN FUND
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POSID -PROJECT
• 1st year 1.1.2012 - 31.12.2012• 2nd year 1.1.2013 - 31.12.2013• 3rd year 1.1.2014 - 31.12.2014• 1.1.2014 – 31.12.2014 3 persons • 2013 budget 260 000 euros
– EU return fund 75 % – National funding 25%
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POSID -PROJECT TARGET GROUP
• Those third country citizens who does not or does not longer fullfill the requirements of legall residence in Finland and has been decided to be removed from Finland.
• 80 % of asylum seekers arrives to Finland without travel or other documents. Situation is better with persons under order of expulsion.
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POSID -PROJECT
Minister of interior Päivi Räsänen in the House of Parliament 11.10.2012: ”person was decided to deport 2000 and again 2009.
- Mr Zyskowicz, ”all we need is two strong policemen to take him back to Vietnam after he is released from the prison”.
- ”We have had similar problems with Iraq and Somalia. Irakin ja Somalian kanssa. Those countiries refuse to take back their own citizens” added Mrs. Räsänen.
POSID -PROJECT National Sovereignty?
• "Immigration Authorities in Cuba have decided the non-acceptance of the deportation of the citizen XXXXXX passport number xxxx taking in to account that the whole family of the aforementioned citizen is living in Finland, including his children"
• Cuba vs. International law and national law
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POSID -PROJECT National Sovereignty?
Embassy jurisdiction vs. National jurisdiction
EmbassyNational jurisdiction / responsibility for a state to readmit their own nationals.
Esim. Ghana, Kongo DR, Cameroon,
Afganistan, Ethiopia, Iraq, Iran, Nigeria
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POSID -PROJECT IDENTIFICATION – PART OF REMOVAL PROCESS
• Effective and credible repatriation system is the most effective way to prevent illegal immigration.
• Identification is a solid part of the deportation process. Deportation process is vital componet of the licence system. Credibility of the process, if above-mentioned issues failes?
• Most of the destination countries requires Passport or Travel Document issued by the Embassy to readmit the person back to the county of origin. Not about mischief!
• Without required documents or the acceptance from the local authorities, deportation to many countries will not succeed. Without identification > failed removals, increasing delays on removals, increasing expenses of residence etc. Pulling factor?
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POSID -PROJECT AIMS OF IDENTIFICATION
• The aim is to establish the nationality of the returnee and obtain a travel document to enable persons repatriation.
• Once the nationality has been established, country of origin has a responsibility to readmit the person. Responsibility is based on International customary law.
• Responsibility does not depend on the fact that whether the person returns voluntarily or by force.
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POSID -PROJECT OBJECTIVES
• To intensify and execute the identification in different ways. To intensify the process of obtaining travel documents > decrease the delays of removals > to intensify enforcement of the removals.
• Common procedures working with the embassyes.
• Practical relations between the Embassy and the Police.
• To chart the persons ordered to be removed. To standardize the coordination.
• Similar way of work for all police officers.
• To develop new working methods for identification.
• Information sharing, statistics etc.
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POSID -PROJECT FUNCTIONAL TARGETS
• Establish and develop direct contacts with foreign Embassyes abroad and in Finland. Create different working methods. Active interaction between the Embassy and the Police.
• Establih contacts with authorities responsible for entry in the destination countries to ease the removals etc.
• Development of the co-operation with the Finnish Embassyes abroad relating to issues of identification.
• Development of the co-operation with different authorities in different member states.
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POSID -PROJECT WORKING METHODS
• Visits to the Embassyes in Finland and abroad.• Identification visits to Finland by the representatives
of the Embassyes. The most effective way to execute the interviews and identification.
• Interviews by telephone. • Contact visits to third countries.• Occasional contacts with third coutry representatives.• Visits of third country delegations to Finland (NIS).• Identification using the video online system.
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POSID -PROJECT EASENING FACTORS
• Readmission agreements (EU level or bilateral).
• Active Embassy.
• Personal relations with the Embassy.
• Document / copy confirming the nationality.
• Registers (population etc.) in the destination coutries.
• Attitude of the returnee .
• Living conditions in the destination country.
• Etc.
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POSID -PROJECT AGGRAVATED FACTORS
• Lack of documents.
• Passive returnee.
• Passive Embassy.
• Bad living conditions (human rights etc.).
• No agreements on returns or cooperation.
• Lack of knowledge regarding the country.
• Lack of the own Embassy in the destination country.
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POSID -PROJECT PROBLEMS
• Biggest problems undocumented persons from Africa, Iraq and Afganistan.
• With some coutries problems occurs also with documented persons.
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POSID -PROJECT ESSENTIAL COUNTRIES
• Difficult destination countries (long delayes): Afganistan, Ethiopia, Iraq, Iran, Nigeria.
• Focus to countries, with big amount of returnees (e.g Nigeria, Iraq, Afganistan, Belarus, Sri Lanka, Russia).
• Frontex -JRO destination countries: Nigeria, Serbia etc.
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POSID -PJOJECT AFGHANISTAN
• Travel document only for voluntary returnees
• Removal is possible with valid passport.
• Some countries repatriates with EU Standard Travel Document with supporting documents.
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POSID -PROJECT ALGERIA
• Long delays
• Long identification process.
• Removal is possible with documents other than Laissez-Passer.
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POSID -PROJECT BELARUS
• Embassy Opened in Helsinki 2012.
• Documents directly from the Embassy.
• Fast process.
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POSID -PROJECTETHIOPIA
• Travel document only for voluntary returnees.
• Removal is possible with valid passport.
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POSID -PROJECT IRAN
• Travel document only for voluntary returnees
• Local authorities does not co-operate with Finnish MFA.
• Removal is possible with valid passport.
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POSID -PROJECT IRAQ
• Travel document only for voluntary returnees.
• Consul is not allowed to meet returnees without proof of their nationality.
• Removal is possible with valid passport.
• Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) accepts criminals to be deported to Erbil.
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POSID -PROJECTNIGERIA
• Problems with the working methods of the Embassy
• Communication problems
• Ambassador protects strongly the rights of migrants
• Example of the influence of the change of the personel.
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POSID -PROJECT SOMALILAND
• Voluntary return with IOM.
• Not yet forced returns.
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POSID- PROJECT PROBLEMATIC COUTRIES
• Guinea + west African countries
• India (undocumented)
• Cuba (long process)
• Kongo Republic
• Eritrea
• Pakistan
Mikko SivolaHelsinki PoliceFinland+ 358 71 877 [email protected]