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State Border Guard
Valsts robežsardze
Emblem of the State Border Guard
Emblem of the State Border Guard
AbbreviationRS
Agency overview
FormedDecember 13, 1991 (origins in 1919)
Preceding agency
  • Border Guard Brigade
Jurisdictional structure
Operations jurisdictionLatvia
Governing bodyMinister of the Interior
Operational structure
HeadquartersRūdolfa iela 5, Riga
Agency executive
  • Gen. Guntis Pujāts, Chief
Territorial boards
6
  • Riga
  • Viļaka
  • Ludza
  • Daugavpils
  • Ventspils
  • Aviation
Website
www.rs.gov.lv

The State Border Guard (Latvian: Valsts Robežsardze) is the border guard of Latvia.[1]

The State Border Guard is an institution subordinated to the Minister of the Interior. The State Border Guard is an armed institution and it serves to ensure the security of the state border and to prevent illegal migration.

Every day more than 2,000 border guards and employees of the State Border Guard fulfil their duties of service. Currently the State Border Guard comprises the Central Board, territorial boards, including the Aviation Board. The State Border Guard College is an institution of higher education under the authority of the State Border Guard.

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).

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