Border control
Under border supervision means the supervision of a designated customs border , a border area and a border area , usually consisting of customs , some of them police surveillance . The aim of this supervision is to prevent and prosecute illegal border crossings, smuggling and other criminal offenses with a border reference.
Border control should not be confused with border protection , although these activities can go hand in hand and complement each other.
In Germany, this task is assigned directly to the Federal Customs Administration , which carries it out with the help of its border control service (which was renamed to control units near the border on January 1, 2008 after the structural development project of the Federal Finance Administration ) and its water customs service (now the control unit for the sea ).
Area of responsibility
Despite the open borders in the European Union, border control continues to take place where either customs or EU external borders are to be found, such as:
- at international airports (e.g. Frankfurt, Berlin, Munich, Düsseldorf ...)
- at free port borders (for example in Bremerhaven and Hamburg)
- on customs roads ( e.g. rivers)
- in the coastal area
- on the border with Switzerland
Another international example are the tasks of American Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement .