The rush is currently decreasing, the registration points in Linz and Wels are no longer used to 100 percent, state police director Andreas Pilsl and the head of the foreign and border police department, Walter Folger, informed on Thursday. Nevertheless, the technical equipment for recording is increased. Four instead of the previous six devices are now in use.
Up to 1,000 entries per day are then possible in Upper Austria. Since these are only possible in Linz in the former mail distribution center and in Wels in the exhibition hall, seven devices will soon also be available from the Ministry of the Interior at locations in the region. Two mobile devices will be in use from the weekend, with which the police officers can come to handicapped refugees, for example.
preparation in schools
Long waiting times, which Pilsl says initially occurred in “individual cases”, are therefore no longer to be expected. “The bottleneck of the technical equipment” has been eliminated, as Folger added. Even if things are currently quieter in the collection points, further developments are uncertain, which is why we want to be prepared.
In order for the corresponding “displaced persons card” to be delivered by the Federal Office for Immigration and Asylum, on whose behalf the executive carries out the registration, it is important that the refugees register with the respective municipality after being assigned to a quarter. This is the only way to record their whereabouts.
In the meantime, the preparatory work for the care of schoolchildren from the Ukraine is also underway in Upper Austria. The education department wrote to retired teachers and asked them for support, according to LH deputy Christine Haberlander (ÖVP) and education director Alfred Klampfer in a press release. “We expect the numbers to develop very dynamically. In order to be prepared for this task, we are also actively contacting retired teachers,” it said. As of Wednesday, there were 193 children and young people in Upper Austria who had fled Ukraine, mostly in compulsory schools.
Source: Nachrichten
