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Enhancing Returnee Identification Processes: Insights from the POSID Project

This document outlines the key methodologies and challenges involved in the identification of returnees, as explored in the POSID Project. It emphasizes the importance of collaboration between embassies and law enforcement, the use of readmission agreements, and database checks. Additionally, it highlights the significance of personal communication and interviews, particularly in complex cases involving undocumented individuals. The project aims to improve practical cooperation and establish effective working methods to facilitate the repatriation process while ensuring legal compliance and respect for human rights.

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Enhancing Returnee Identification Processes: Insights from the POSID Project

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  1. IDENTIFICATION OF RETURNEES -PROJECT(POSID -PROJECT) SISEKAITSEAKADEEMIAN 15.05.2014 TALLIN Mikko Sivola HELSINKI POLICE CO-FINANCED BY THE EU RETURN FUND

  2. POSID -PROJECT COMMON WORKING METHODS • Use of readmission agreements (14 EU level, 1 national). • Inquiries (interpol, Visa). • Checks from databases (National, VIS etc.) • Help from the liaison officers, own Embassies. • Visits to the foreign Embassies. • Visits to Finland by the representatives of the Embassy. • Interviews by telephone. • Contact visits to third countries. • Visits of third country delegations (NIS). • Identification using the video online system. • Cooperation with other member states (EURINT etc.) • Money transfers, mobile phones?

  3. POSID -PROJECT EMBASSIES • Vital for practical and daily cooperation. • Mutual needsfrombothsides. Embassy "needs" contactpersonsfrom the Police. • Moreactive – betterresults? • Expencesifabroad? • Repatriation is not the primarywork of the Embassy.

  4. POSID -PROJECT VISITS TO THE EMBASSIES • To establish / maintainrelations. • Best way to presentcasesbeforehand. • To give and haveinformation to / from the Embassies. Embassiesusuallyhaveestablishedsolidpractises in the field of repatriation. • Doesnotrequire Embassy staff to travelpossiblyabroad. Usuallystaff is busy with daily work. • Interviewsmaytakeplace at the Embassy. • Selected Embassy contactpersons?

  5. POSID -PROJECT EMBASSIES PROBLEMS • Embassiesmaybereluctant to assist the Police due to manydifferentreasons. • Embassiesare to protect and to servetheirowncitizensabroad! • SomeEmbassieshaveordersfrom the governmentrelated the repatriation(Iraq, Iran, Ethiopia, NorthernAfricaetc). • Lack of knowledge of the national law. > confusedby the returnee. • Pressurefrom the diaspora, Money transfers! • Claimsagainst the Embassies to MFA afterissuance of the document / repatriation. • Corruption?

  6. POSID -PROJECT EMBASSIES • QuitemanyEmbassiesareco-operative and undesrtand the issueand areready to assist. • Folow national legislationof the host country. • Doesnotdemandfullevidence on the nationality > differentworkingmethods. Interviewmaybesufficient. • Ready to travel etc.

  7. POSID -PROJECT INTERVIEWS • Mandatory for some Embassies. Especially if the returnee is without documents to proof the nationality. • Can be done at the Embassy or at the Police station. • Best way to establish the nationality. • Representative is fellow citizen. Confidence between the returnee and the representavtive. Police may be felt like opponent. • Result is usually given on the spot. • takes usually 2-3 days if the representative arrives from abroad. • Decision of the issuance of the document depends often of the Ambassador or even from local authorities. • Detention to secure the presence of the returnee?

  8. POSID -PROJECT INTERVIEWS • Can also be done by the phone. Depends on the Embassy. • Sppedy and practical, does not require representative to arrive to Police station or even from abroad. Conversation can easily be connected with other returnees across the country > Cost effective. • Is based only on the speech of the returnee (dialect etc). • Returnee may be reluctant to speak, easier to lie etc. What then? • Practical problems like bad line, disturbance of the other matters. Interviever may have forgotten the call etc.

  9. POSID -PROJECT VISITS TO THE DESTINATION COUNTRIES • Africancountries etc. havedifferent manner to cooperatethanEuropeanauthorities. Africanspreferpersonalcommunication. • To meetpersonsresponsible for the entry and identification, to createrelations(seen as effort?), to getassistance in the future etc. • Expensive, difficultieshavingappointmentsorganized with primarypersons. • Return visits, Identificationvisits (NIS), communicationafterwards. • Localauthoritiesdoesnothavesimilarduty to protectowncitizensthan the Embassy on the host country? • Mobile repatriationliasionofficer?

  10. POSID -PROJECT VISA • Misuse of Visa system is essentialway for illegalimmigration to Europe. • VIS systemexpansions is in progress> worldslargestdatabasewhenready. • Onlyelectronicalinformation of the traveldocumentsavailableeasily.' • Shouldobtainoriginalcopies of the documents.

  11. POSID- PROJECT VISA INQUIRIES • Informalinquiry, usuallyresponse in given. • Made to Schengen representation in the destionationcounty. • Whatpart of the story is true? Fromwhichcounty to askfrom. • Help fromliasonofficers

  12. Mikko SivolaHelsinki PoliceFinland+ 358 71 877 0602

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