ANNUAL POLICY REPORT 2012 - The Department of Informatics of the Police Headquarters, in parallel with examining the transition of the network of the Police to the government network “SYZEFXIS”, proceeded to upgrading of its lines in MPLS technology which will provide the possibility to increase services in 1-2 Mbps. This will increase the speed of access of all Police Services to National Applications. Up to now, all Passport Control Points have been upgraded, while upgrading of all police agencies is expected to be completed in the very near future (taking into account the fact that upgrading of 45 of them is pending, while until June 2012 only 22 police agencies had been upgraded). - Regarding the network of outposts of Poros in Evros, the competent services are in cooperation with the Organisation for Telecommunications in Greece (OTE) to find a specific technical solution for networking setup, preferably wireless (technology LMDS). Simultaneously there have been made steps to further reduce the response time of the system for the benefit of end users. - The transition of existing applications in WEB environment has been completed. This application is operational since May 2012 at the Police Directorate of Chios, while it is operational at the Athens International Airport since 01/12/2012. The familiarisation of end-users with the new application is particularly important in view of the operation of the SIS II, in March 2013. - The implementation of the application "monitoring" - evolution of a Schengen measure (HIT) discovery, has been completed and it will be made available to end users in view of the operation of SIS II. - The implementation of access to the international systems Prado, i-Fado and I 24/7 has also been completed. - Finally, the applications of the internal network (Intranet) of the Police (“Police On Line”) are being factored to reduce the response time for the benefit of end users. Also all applications associated with the Aliens Directorate of the Hellenic Police Headquarters are being redesigned and optimized in order to have a single and homogeneous management environment. As far as VIS is concerned, since 31.10.2011, it is in use in all competent services which are now able to control and issue visas in accordance with VIS requirements. b. Please describe any relevant (planned) actions taken to better coordinate different types of border checks (e.g. automated and non-automated, fasttrack and non-fast-track) at the external borders. c. Please describe any relevant (planned) developments to ensure more effective control of the external land, sea and air borders, such as reinforcing border control staff, providing training, increasing overall resources etc. 22