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BORDER GUARD SERVICE OF REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA

The Border Guard Service is a central administrative body, which shall exercise its obligations and shall promote the state policy in surveillance and control of state border , in the view to fight against specific cross- border crimes, illegal migration, ensuring as well as the Republic of Moldova interests at the state border, in accordance with the law. Also, the Border Guard Service promotes the State’s policy in other areas foreseen by the law in force.

Obligations of the Border Guard Service:

- Not to allow the illegal, on-the-field change of the state border;

- To prevent the illegal crossing of the state border; to detect and detain the state border violators;

- To assure the maintenance of the state border regime, of the border regime and of the regime of the state border crossing points;

- To carry out the border control and the admission, according to the established order, of persons and means of transportation across the state border of Republic of Moldova upon the proof of legally valid documents allowing the right to cross the state border in conformity with the legislation with the goal to prevent, detect and suppress the violations of the rules of crossing the state border;

- To combat, through cooperation with other competent authorities, illegal migration, organized crime, the illegal trafficking in weapons, ammunition, explosive materials, poisonous and radioactive substances, narcotics, substances and precursors, psychotropic substances; to combat smuggling, international terrorism, and other crimes;

- To register foreign citizens and persons without citizenship arriving in the Republic of Moldova at the moment of crossing the state border by introducing their identity documents’ data into the State Population Register,

- To prevent and detect, within the competence limitations, the administrative violations;

- To refuse the entrance/exit to/from the Republic of Moldova of the persons and means of transportation, which are forbidden to enter/exit the Republic of Moldova, or their rights to enter/exit the Republic of Moldova are under temporary constraint in conformity with the current legislation;

- To participate, in an established way and within its limits of competence in enforcing the international legal order and border guard activity, but also in concluding international treaties on border issues and representative border activity;

- To coordinate the activity of state bodies with regards to the border-related surveillance and control and assuring the state border regime, the border regime and the regime in the state border crossing points. The coordination of the activity of all services of control in the state border crossing points shall be carried out with the common agreement with the customs bodies;

- To assure the personal security of the service; combat the corruption and criminal acts on behalf of the personnel during exercising their operative duties; defending the personnel from criminal attempts conducted during and as result of the professional activity of the border guards; provide security to the members of their families.

- To perform other obligations set by the law.

The Symbolic:

Emblema Serviciului Grăniceri

Stema Serviciului Grăniceri

Drapelul Serviciului Grăiceri

The Blazon The Official Emblem

The Flag of the Border Guard Service

The green color – of the blazon’s shield and that of flag’s cloth is the traditional color of the Border Guard Service. In the heraldic and the vexillology, the green color is also the color of destiny, hope, nature, freshness, hunters and youth. The embattled silver belt – symbolizes the state border of The Republic of Moldova and alludes to the border fortress of medieval Moldova. The basic sign of the emblem is the circular eagle. The eagle was one of the main emblems adopted by the roman ancestors, in order to be carried on the banners in the head of legions. Her gilded enamel, the same as it was in the antiquity, makes closer the old tradition to that of nowadays. The eagle carries on in its beak one cross, that is because it represents the Romanian eagle, which through this element of spirituality for our nation, individualized itself during centuries, in comparison with the eagles of others nations which inherited this roman military and state emblem. The eagle bears in the right claw a silver hatchet. The hatchet, an old weapon for fight, which had the role in heraldic of threatening the enemy, shows here that the border guards are watching over the legality, as well as a warning for those who would try to cross illegally the border. In the left claw, the eagle carries on a silver key. The key is a symbol with double role of opening and closing. It shows here that the border of the Republic of Moldova, by border guards’ will and according to the legislation, may be closed or opened. That depends on the intentions of those who would like to cross it. The shield from the eagle’s chest repeats through its composition and enamel, the main shield from the state blazon of the Republic of Moldova, having the same meaning and being at the same time a link between the State and one of its instruments. The flag of the Border Guard Service was elaborated based on the official emblem, through the method of expansion of the heraldic field in vehilar field. Thus, the flag takes on it the significance of the Border Guard Service’s emblem. The same sets of the original flag assign the place of Border Guard Service in the hierarchy of institutions and organizations of the Republic of Moldova.

THE BORDER SIGN OF REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA

The border sign represents the sign which marks the state border line on the field and is installed within the direct limits of visibility. The border sign’s dimensions are measured in centimeters, and the color is given under the decision of each of the parts.

Each border sign is assigned with sequence number (from north to south).

The coordinates of the border sign are determined using global system WGS-84 with precision of 15 centimeters relative to the points of state geodesic network (national one).

The structure of the institution

The Headquarters

• The General Directorate for Surveillance and Control of the State Border

• The General Director’s Office

• The General Directorate for Human Resources

• General Directorate for Logistics

• The Financial Division

• The Division of Informational Development and Communications

• The Information and Public Relations Service

• The Internal Security Section

• The Chancellery

• The Control and Revision Service

Regional Structures:

• Regional Directorate for State Border Surveillance and Control “Otaci”

• Regional Directorate for State Border Surveillance and Control “Edineț”

• Regional Directorate for State Border Surveillance and Control “Costești”

• Regional Directorate for State Border Surveillance and Control “Ungheni”

• Regional Directorate for State Border Surveillance and Control “Leova”

• Regional Directorate for State Border Surveillance and Control “Cahul”

• Regional Directorate for State Border Surveillance and Control “Vulcănești”

• Regional Directorate for State Border Surveillance and Control “Basarabeasca”

• Regional Directorate for State Border Surveillance and Control “Ștefan - Vodă”

• Regional Directorate for Supply “Chișinău”

• National College for Border Guards

Local Structures (tactical level):

The border posts – represents a basic subdivision of the Border Guard Service, with the main aim of direct surveillance of a certain sector of the state border and at the same time functioning within the Regional Directorates for State Border Surveillance and Control. The State border surveillance – the surveillance activity of border posts carried out between border crossing points within the limits of competence zone. The State Border crossing points – are functioning within the Regional Directorates for State Border Surveillance and Control, in international, interstate and local traffic regime with road, airport, rail road, port specifics, ensuring at the same time the compliance of border treaties, agreements, conventions and protocols provisions, at which the Republic of Moldova is part and ensuring the control of state border crossing. The control of state border crossing – is a type of control carried out in the border crossing points and in other established points, where according to national legislation and concluded treaties is authorized the border crossing. The persons control includes the checking of identification and other documents referred to the entrance, staying, work and leaving the country, and, also the controls in order to detect and prevent the threats to national security and public order of Republic of Moldova. The same controls are also applicable to the vehicles and personal objects, which owners are crossing the state border.