THE BALTIC REPUBLICS
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Police and Border Guard
The Police and Border Guard Board (Politsei- ja Piirivalveamet) is a unified national governmental agency within the Estonian Ministry of Interior and is responsible for law enforcement and internal security in the Republic of Estonia.
The main tasks of the agency are to ensure and protect the integrity of the Estonian state and the European Union border within the territories of the Republic of Estonia; to monitor and identify citizenship, along with handling the documentation; to preserve law and civil order within the borders of the Republic of Estonia; and to detect and prevent crime.
ESTONIA
Rotary Wing
Fixed Wing
Aviation Resources
2023
Agusta Westland AW139
Beech 350iER
Cessna 172R
Enstrom 480B
LATVIA
State Border Guard (Valsts Robežsardze)
The State Border Guard ensures surveillance of 276 km long border between the Republic of Latvia and Russian Federation, 172,9 km long border between the Republic of Latvia and the Republic of Belarus, and 498 km long sea border (external EU border), as well as monitoring of 343 km long border between the Republic of Latvia and the Republic of Estonia and 588 km long border between the Republic of Latvia and the Republic of Lithuania (internal EU border).
Rotary Wing
Fixed Wing
Aviation Resources
2023
AB206B
AW109E
AW119Kx
LITHUANIA
State Border Guard Service
(Valstybės sienos apsaugos tarnyba)
The State Border Guard Service is a border control institution under the Ministry of the Interior of Lithuania charged with controlling and maintaining the security of the Lithuanian borders on land, in the Baltic Sea and the Curonian Lagoon. VSAT is a member of the EU Frontex and is responsible for the security of about 1,070 kilometres (660 mi) of the external border of the European Union with Kaliningrad Oblast (exclave of Russia) and Belarus.
Rotary Wing
Fixed Wing
Aviation Resources
2023
EC120B
EC135T2
EC145