Russian Federal Border Service will test a control system of passengers without participation of frontier guards

Russian Federal Border Service since 2011 is going to begin tests of a system of the automated control of passengers at the airports which will not demand participation in process of frontier guards, the head of department of border control of Frontier service Vladimir Mochalov at a field meeting of board of Rosgranitsa which took place on Wednesday in Yekaterinburg reported on Wednesday.

He explained that a system looks so: the passenger puts the passport to the reader device and if the document as it should be, then it undergoes automatic control, without participation of frontier guards, and crosses border.

Mochalov noted that it "approximately the same that becomes in Lisbon, Helsinki, London". According to him, the same system is going be "rolled" also in several seaports.

Participants of board discussed measures for arrangement of air check points through frontier of the Russian Federation and also the relevant bill.

As the head of Frontier service of FSB Vladimir Pronichev said at the beginning of June of this year in an interview to Rossiyskaya Gazeta, introduction of the system of biometric border control, as expected, will be introduced in Russia by 2012. He noted then that introduction of this system will allow to lower time of passing by the passenger of frontier control up to 10-15 seconds. At the end of 2009 a system was tested on the Russian-Finnish border.

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