Dundo - The new israeli-made LRD video border surveillance equipment will be inaugurated Thursday in far north eastern Lunda Norte province by Angolan Interior minister, Roberto Leal Monteiro, a border police source told Angop Wednesday.

The chief of staff of the Border Police Force Command, sub-commissar Delfim Calulo Inacio, said the new satellite-monitored video surveillance and radio communication system will help protect the land and river borders in the province.

Sub-commissar Calulo Inácio, who is also the head of the Safe Border Exercise Program, stated that the project started two years ago with the familiarisation of Porder Police staff  with the LRD equipment, adding that its launch in Lunda Norte province is due to the large border extension ( five hundred miles) with the DRCongo, constantly crossed illegally by foreign diamond smugglers. 

He added that, under the Government's program, all Angolan borders will be equipped with modern surveillance systems to prevent illegal immigration into the national territory.