Bulgaria Opens National SIRENE-Schengen Information System

Bulgaria has already started working with the Schengen Information System (SIS), the Interior Ministry has announced.

The first request was received at 8:45 pm on Saturday at the Regional Police Department in Sofia and it concerned a stolen car. The information has been immediately entered into SIS and the car has been announced for search in the countries from the Schengen zone.

The Interior Ministry has announced that the official connection of Bulgarian to SIS began on November 5. As a result, after Saturday, 6:00 pm, the end users of SIS in Bulgaria have been given access to the data base.

Immediately, the SIRENE Bureau in Bulgaria started exchanging signals with other countries that are in the Schengen zone.

On October 22, the Bulgarian Interior Minister, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, opened the National SIRENE Bureau (Supplementary Information Request at the National Entry), which is a system for exchange of additional or supplementary information on alerts between the Schengen States.

According to the EU requirements, every Schengen state must create a SIRENE Bureau, working 24/7 and exchanging information with the other bureaux.

The Bulgarian structure received on Sunday the first signal for a wanted Bulgarian citizen, captured with the European arrest warrant.

He has been arrested in Spain after Bulgaria entered information about him in SIS.

A total of 31 requests have been entered in the system since the beginning of its work on Saturday. According to the Interior Ministry, the requests are for wanted people, stolen cars and documents.

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