36 The non-legal immigrants arrested by the Border Services of the Hellenic Police, return to Turkey, on the basis of a Bilateral Protocol of Readmission and the EU-Turkey Agreement. These returns take place as provided by the Border Transit Point of Evros Gardens and in no case via unofficial refoulements. For the best operational response, the Hellenic Police Headquarters has issued standing orders, which are transmitted to the staff of the Border Guard Services in relation to the behavior of the police staff towards the immigrants and refugees, for the full respect of the fundamental human rights. It is worth noting that the Greek police officers that operate in Evros over the last years are co-assisted by a staff of the European Border Guard and Coast Guard Organisation (Frontex), which by the Joint Operations held (Flexible Operational Activities and Focal Points), assists the National Operation "ASPIDA" with the purpose of strengthening the response to the greek-turkish borders. In particular, within the actions of Frontex, in the region of Evros a great number of officers, coming from various Member-States of the Organization has taken action, without having ever recorded some incidence of illegal refoulement or violation of human rights by police officers of the Border Guard Services. Said officers, always under the supervision of the Greek police officers, take part so much in the prevention operations (entrance prevention), as in the handling of immigrants after their location (procedures of verification of nationality, debriefing, interpreting, etc). Following the investigation of a number of similar reported incidents by the proper Services of the Hellenic Police, it is concluded that the said complaints are not confirmed. In no case, should this fact leave any space to negative impressions, as to the very difficult operational work of the police staff during the handling of migrating flows in the greek-turkish borders. At the same time, said complaints should not cancel the broad scale measures taken carried out in the region of Evros and which also show substantial and positive results in the field of immigrants handling. In this context, the Hellenic Police will keep accomplishing its work with professionalism and respect to the human rights, whilst it will continue to look into ways of better handling of the borders and protection of migrating flows, fighting at the same time any arbitrariness case within it. B.-Besides the foregoing, we have included in our planning on the application of the National Programme of the Domestic Affairs sector 20142020 (AMU') a number of actions related to the Detention Centres for Aliens and the returns, the implementation of which will contribute, by order of priority, to the increase of returns and the assurance of the living conditions with decent living conditions.

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