Iranian Law Enforcement Police force plans to deploy units of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) along the country's Southeastern borders as part of its broader plan to intensify border control, a senior Police Chief announced last week.
Iran's Police Chief Brigadier General Esmayeel Ahmadi Moqaddam (photo) said his force has taken measures to strengthen border guards units.
“We have taken good measures to reinvigorate our units and set up turrets along border areas and drone units will also be activated for aerial surveillance to the same end,” Ahmadi Moqaddam stated.
He added that Police have procured the necessary gears for controlling the country's water borders as well.
Iran shares open borders on the West with Iraq and Turkey, on the East with Afghanistan and Pakistan, on the South with the Persian Gulf littoral states and the Sea of Oman, on the North with Armenia and Azerbaijan and the Caspian Sea, and on the North East with Turkmenistan.
Eastern Iran borders Afghanistan, which is the world's number one opium and drug producer. Iran's geographical position has made the country a favorite transit corridor for drug traffickers who intend to smuggle their cargoes from Afghanistan to drug dealers in Europe.
Earlier in October, Lieutenant Commander of Iran's Border Guard Forces General Ahmad Gravand said that Iran now has “all-out control” over the country's borders, especially in the East.
“Controlling the Iran-Afghanistan borders is a top priority of the Iranian Police's Border Guards unit,” he then stated, adding that Police is digging canals and using optical electronic systems to monitor the bordering areas and prevent drug convoys from crossing the country's borderline.
In September, Commander of the Iranian Border Guard Units General Hossein Zolfaqari said that the country is closely monitoring its border regions through high-tech equipments, including optical and radar systems.
Zolfaqari underlined then the significance of the use of high-tech equipments and technologies in border control, adding that Iranian border guard units are using radar and optic systems to control the country's borders.
Source: FNA
