The Hungarian officers will use their own equipment, which includes off-road vehicles, night vision devices and mobile infra-red cameras during their patrols.
30 Hungarian policemen are leaving for Serbia today, as part of the cooperation between Austria, Hungary and Serbia, to cooperate with local authorities there.
State Secretary Bence Rétvári said Hungary is increasing the height of its border fence so that Europe does not have to bring back internal border controls.
Hungary and Serbia will simplify border crossing for persons respecting regulations but they will continue to act together against those that intend to cross the border illegally.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said Hungary will soon face growing migration pressure on its southern border.
Police have apprehended a total of 54,907 illegal border crossers so far this year compared with 17,000 at this point in 2020.
A group of 15 migrants tried to enter Hungary at Ásotthalom at 8.40pm on Tuesday, spraying uniformed officers protecting the border with a gas spray from the Serbian side.
“Hungary won’t give in to pressure from pro-migration forces. We’ll continue to defend the Hungarian people and the country and EU’s borders,” said Zoltán Kovács.
Officers patrolling the border discovered the tunnel beneath the temporary border fence system on the outskirts of Ásotthalom on Tuesday.
Csongrád County Police Headquarters confirmed that 60 people stormed the border en-masse and a border guard fired three warning shots.
Bacs-Kiskun county police confirmed that the migrants had hidden in a wagon and on the undercarriage of a Serbian freight train. They had no valid identification.
Official figures show the number of people apprehended each week along the Hungarian-Serbian border is currently two hundred, following an average of one hundred in the previous period.
Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini kicked off his visit to Hungary on Thursday by inspecting the fence on the country’s Serbian border with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán