Thanks to work by Fima engineers, people hoping to cross illegally Lithuania border with Russia’s Kaliningrad region are going to find life more difficult. Specialists from the company have strengthened one more part of the border  at the Kybartai frontier station. Work was commissioned by the State Border Guard Service.

Fima engineers built a 540 metre long and two metre high steel mesh protective fence, equipping it with a sensor cable which can detect any type of impact and a series of fixed and remotely-controlled video cameras along the entire perimeter.

 “After a camera receives data warning of an attempt to climb or destroy the fence, it turns to the exact place where the cable detected the breach and immediately triggers an alarm. A duty border guard at the station is shown an image from the site and decides on the next course of action. This  security system significantly reduces the chance of false alarms and optimises the use of human resources ,” said the director of Fima’s Security Solutions Department, Giedrius Zaicevas.

This project is the latest in a series to upgrade frontier station security and surveillance and is an initiative which had previously been suspended due to lack of funding, according to the chief of the Kybartai frontier station of the Lazdijai frontier district, Audrius Šantaras.

He added: “The protective fence built in the left wing of the Kybartai frontier station is an extension to the one that was put up in 2007. Installing remote control equipment at the station will also make life easier for our officers. Now that protection of the state border has been significantly improved with a new video surveillance system, frontier officers will not have to spend so much time patrolling and will be able to spend more time focusing on “hot spots” which have yet to be upgraded with such advanced technology.

Fima also installed a night-time lighting system along the upgraded section and a video wall in the watchkeeping office, modernised the Kybartai frontier station’s data centre and replaced recording devices, fixed video cameras, optical converters and other parts of the video surveillance system which was originally installed in 2003.

The installation of the border surveillance system has been funded under the 2011 annual programme of the EU External Borders Fund.