Mohammed Amidi, a spokesman for the Kurdish Democratic Party, one of the main parties in the Kurdish regional government, and Col. Hussein Rasheed, the commander of the Iraqi border protection forces in Dohuk Province, both denied news media reports that Turkish special forces had crossed the frontier.
So are you going to get hauled away by the cops, or is it just not worth it for the already clearly busy Border Protection forces?
France cleared the area around the entrances and erected huge fences at the start of September, as well as bolstered the amount of security in Calais with help from British border protection forces. .
The defense minister, Gen. Abdul Rahim Wardak, noted that the projected reductions beyond 2014 were the result of "a conceptual model for planning purposes" of an army, police and border-protection force sufficient to defend Afghanistan.
It was unclear how many of those forces had taken up missions on the border, which will include support tasks like building housing for Customs and Border Protection personnel and erecting barriers.
While this remains a vital criticism, the piece points to a larger issue at stake, which is the incremental expansion of the central government's policing powers through the Border Security Force, the Central Reserve Police Force, the Sashastra Seema Bal, the Railway Protection Force and the National Investigation Agency.
"If the details were released, border protection authorities would be forced to revise current operational methodology to minimise the harm caused by those disclosures.
The latest version of the border protection agency's use-of-force manual, from 2010, says, "Only that force which is both reasonable and necessary may be used in any given situation".
The joint statement issued by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection and the Australian Border Force reflects the growing sensitivity to vocal protests from medical professionals, as well as questions asked about the act on the ABC's Q&A program last Monday night.
