On Thursday morning, police officers intervened at the foreign police department in Košice. They took his director from there. The detention confirmed it spokeswoman for the Inspection Service Office, Andrea Dobiášová.
“Investigators of the Office of the Inspection Service are conducting a criminal prosecution in the indicated case for abuse of authority of a public official, no specific person has yet been charged.”
The initial information about the fact that hoodlums, i.e. members of the emergency police department, should have arrived at the workplace was not confirmed. Dobiášová specified that it was a police patrol.
Corsair also contacted the prosecutor’s office in this case.
“The detention of the suspect, the director of the foreign police department, took place with the consent of the prosecutor,” the Košice prosecutor’s office confirmed.
“Mon after his hearing, this person was dismissed from detention. How much further procedural actions are being carried out in the given case, it is not possible to provide the public with more detailed information,” added the prosecutor’s office.
They worked
On Friday, the workplace located at Tr. SNP in classic mode. His employees were receiving pages, several strangers were waiting in the corridor.
We could not find the director in his office, nor did he pick up the landline. Two workers independently said before noon that they had not seen him there on Friday.
Košick foreigner POLICE covers the districts of Košice I to IV, Košice-okolie, Gelnica and Spišská Nová Ves.
(source: Katarína Gécziová, Korzár)
Problems
In connection with the foreign police, there is talk of the unavailability of dates and trading with them. Problems are caused by the increased number of foreigners in the country, lack of staff and an overloaded reservation system.
Some of the foreigners arrange the appointment illegally through intermediaries, which costs hundreds of euros, or they buy “bots”, programs that check for free places in the system at regular intervals, which, however, burdens it at the same time.
On Facebook there are groups dedicated to foreigners. At one of them, Foreigners in Kosice, the discussants offer help in booking an appointment with the foreign police, or help when obtaining a temporary residence permit. According to the announcement, the service is paid.
It turns out that each ethnic group apparently has its own mediators. For a fee, they fill out forms, help foreigners navigate the website of the Ministry of the Interior and accompany them to the foreign police, whose employees often do not speak English.
The facts
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Today, there are about 140,000 refugees from Ukraine who have been granted temporary refuge in Slovakia, and the number of applicants continues to grow.
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Over the past ten years, the number of foreigners in Slovakia has grown by more than 300%: from less than 85,000 in 2014 to more than 360,000 by the end of 2025.
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The agenda is ensured by 13 departments of the foreign police, which have been overloaded for a long time, mainly due to the growing legal migration of employees from third countries.
(source: Ministry of the Interior of the Slovak Republic)
