ZAGREB, September 26, 2018 - The Croatian Parliament Committee on Home Affairs and National Security on Wednesday endorsed the annual report on police work in 2017, paying special attention to the migrant crisis.

ZAGREB, September 24, 2018 - A Syrian refugee claiming that the Croatian police forcibly separated him from his five-year-old daughter on Monday formally filed a missing person report and applied for asylum.

ZAGREB, September 24, 2018 - Croatia's law enforcement authorities have denied the allegations of a Syrian migrant that in the village of Smoljanac in the region of Lika the police forcibly separated him from his five-year daughter.

NGOs accuse Croatian authorities for their alleged behaviour toward migrants once again.

ZAGREB, September 20, 2018 - The Croatian police are capable of controlling the Croatian border on their own and doesn't need additional help from the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) which should be deployed to the first EU external borders, Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said on Wednesday in Salzburg.

ZAGREB, September 15, 2018 - The reuniting of persons who have been granted international protection in Croatia and their families is a complex and long process that requires getting through red tape as well as significant funds, it was said at a round table in Zagreb on Friday.

ZAGREB, September 12, 2018 - A Frontex-run training programme called "Land and Border Surveillance Officer Training" is currently underway in Valbandon, near Pula, for 45 police officers from EU countries and is being conducted together with the Croatian Police Academy, which is a partner to the Frontex Academy.

ZAGREB, September 12, 2018 - Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković told the visiting Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen in Zagreb on Tuesday that Croatia was making great efforts in combating illegal migration and protecting the European Union's external border, reiterating that Croatia would like to join the Schengen area next year.

The first European border police officers are expected to arrive in 2020.

ZAGREB, September 11, 2018 - Border police in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina are cooperating well in preventing illegal migration and the Bosnian side is prepared to engage all its capacities to control those occurrences, it was said on Monday following a meeting of Bosnia's border police director Zoran Galić and Croatia's Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina Ivan Del Vechio.