Overview

• The Fahndungsgruppe Grenze will add 12 officers in Seifhennersdorf on October 1 and 12 in Pirna on November 1 under the direction of regional Landespolizei and Bundespolizei commands.
• Resource constraints forced Saxony to abandon plans for a standalone 350-officer border police force in favor of this smaller joint unit.
• The new team will focus on curbing illegal migration flows and targeting cross-border criminal activities such as property offenses and drug smuggling.
• Interior Minister Armin Schuster cites a drop in weekly migrant arrivals from about 1,000 last September to roughly 100 now as proof that intensified border controls are working.
• Opposition parties AfD and BSW criticize the 24-officer deployment as insufficient for a 570-kilometer frontier and warn it will deepen existing police staffing shortages.