Border Guard Service of Minsk National Airport can detect delinquent passenger at a glance

28 мая 2022
The gradual relaxation of coronavirus bans brings the work of the airport border service back to its previous mode. By the way, all covid restrictions for foreigners in Belarus have been cancelled as of today. How to distinguish fake from genuine documents? What distinguishes the delinquent passengers? 

Soldiers in green caps are able to recognize at a glance what a man in the street would not be able to recognize even with an armed eye. But special thinking, good memory, as well as stress resistance and high concentration are the result of long training. 

Every day before going on shift at Minsk National Airport, border guards undergo an obligatory stage of training and take tests. 

Despite the presence of modern technology, any calculation of a delinquent passenger starts with the attentiveness and intuition of the controller. You have 2 minutes to check the passport of a Belarusian, and one more minute for a foreigner.   

If the passport is still in doubt, an officer of the special inspection department joins the check. The document is thoroughly examined again with additional equipment. Meanwhile, the inspector continues his work.

Since the beginning of this year, there have been seven unscrupulous passengers at Minsk airport. By the way, as a rule, the offenders give themselves away by their excitement. Four of them tried to leave the country with false documents. As for the other three, the passport presented did not belong to them at all. And this, the border service notes, is quite a high rate of violations. But even on their professional holiday, the employees of the department are on duty to remain on guard of the country's borders.