Frontex Mental Health Strategy has been drafted to support Member States in strengthening their capacities in fulfilling their ‘duty of care’ in the area of occupational mental health and to encourage both the Agency and national border guarding services to introduce measures preventing mental health risks and promoting psychosocial well-being ‘of the participants in Frontex joint operations’.

Contact: OSH@frontex.europa.eu

Link: https://myfx.frontex.europa.eu/cases/PRJ36/PRJ-2018-00009/Documents/40%20Deliverables/Translations/Mental%20Health%20Strategy/Mental%20Health%20Strategy_WEB_V2.pdf#search=Frontex%20Mental%20Health%20Strategy%20%282016%29

By providing a structured description of the hands-on activities that the Member States and Frontex need to undertake for the effective deployment of surveillance aircraft, these guidelines provide comprehensive information on the administrative and logistic processes that such deployment entails to all parties involved. Additionally, National Frontex Points of Contact (NFPOCs) and other competent national authorities may use these guidelines as a training tool as they include basic reference material for organising deployment. Hence, this publication also contributes to strengthening the interoperability and preparedness of the competent national authorities that provide or receive aerial support.

This study provides border guards with an overview of the ethical issues that can arise from their work. It provides border guards with a guide to the ethical principles that can help to manage and resolve those issues. The study is divided into three parts. The first part is a survey and analysis of codes of conduct currently in use by border agencies in EU countries. It begins by giving a brief description of the aims and functions of codes of conduct. It then provides an overview of 23 border guard codes of conduct, highlighting their shared concerns and noting their differences. This comparative survey is first presented in a table and then discussed in more detail. The study concludes by identifying both, main areas of overlap and gaps between the national codes of conduct and the Schengen Code and Handbook.

Link: https://www.frontex.europa.eu/media-centre/news/news-release/frontex-publishes-study-on-ethics-in-border-security-iXGzI6

This Frontex Air-Crew Training Manual is the first step towards a unified European air operation system for border guards and police forces. A high level of flight safety through common training standards, the sharing of best practices, and harmonised procedures is the way forward to ensure successful future Joint Operations (JOs) in European border security. The main objective of this training manual is to set common training standards for both national and Frontex training.

This Manual sets common standards within Frontex Air-Crew Training for JOs for the following:

- meteorological flight minima

- proposals for the minimum flight crew

- description of training needs for air-crew members’ standardisation

- description of common training courses.

This document intends to provide Member States with a tentative framework for building a targeting capability, by providing guidelines about the different processes to be set up, areas of interest to be taken into account as regards the organisation, management and coordination of the capability, and its cooperation with external partners.

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The brochure has been built for Imposter detection for border guards with some reference material and
terminology. Checking a person’s identity starts with a comparison of the person and the document that he or
she presents. The increasing quality of security features in identity documents is making it more and more
difficult to forge such a document. To obtain another identity, it is more common to use another person’s
authentic document whose photo matches with the perpetrator’s face. To combat such lookalike fraud and to
decide whether the person who presents the document is actually the person the document shows, a universal,
systematic approach is necessary.

Contact: HoU.Academy@frontex.europa.eu 

This document intends to provide Member States with tools for the development of risk profiles, including proposing a methodology for building tactical risk profiles, presenting a framework on risk profiles to be used for the more effective combination and processing of risk indicators, and providing practical resources and examples.

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This document intends to provide Member States with practical tools for the development of risk profiles, and more particularly to present a common risk profile template and examples of how it could be developed depending on a number of threats described here. It also provides a checklist about questions Border Management Authorities (BMAs) should tackle when they are developing risk profiles. Finally, this booklet aims at exposing the different data elements contained in the EU databases and that can be used to detect risk indicators.

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This plan describes the coordinated set of operating procedures for medical interventions to be implemented for migrants landing on Sicilian shores, taking into account both healthcare at disembarkation and healthcare administered in first reception centres. This plan applies both to planned landings in the context of search and rescue operations at sea (SAR) and other planned operations, and to unplanned landings. This plan also applies to landings on the Island of Lampedusa and other minor islands of Sicily and does not contradict the ‘Recommendations for the management of healthcare problems related to the influx of migrants on small islands’ issued by the Ministry of Health on 5 November 2012, – Office 3, Coordination of the Office for Maritime, Air and Border Healthcare, but instead defines all roles and skills in operational job role information.

The study presents the findings and recommendations of the 2017–2018 European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) Common Core Curriculum interoperability assessment programme (CCC-IAP) as part of the Eastern Partnership integrated border management (EaP-IBM) capacity building project led by Frontex, in cooperation with the World Customs Organisation, the International Organisation for Migration and the International Centre for Migration Policy Development. The purpose of the IAP is to measure the level at which, following the acquisition of the knowledge and skills defined in the CCC, the new border guards in the EaP countries participating in the project can demonstrate interoperability, proved by the results of an evaluation administered online.

Contact: HoU.Academy@frontex.europa.eu

Link: https://myfx.frontex.europa.eu/cases/DMS9/DMS-00009/Documents/FPI-21.0015/IAP%20Study.pdf#search=Interoperability%20%20Assessment%20Programme%20Study