But once within the community, passport checks will be less rigorous than in the past, especially for road and rail travelers.

At the normal passport check, an officer who did not know what had happened the day before checked his passport and let him through.

Checkpoints and passport checks are common in these areas.

Apart from sometimes lengthy waits for passport checks, there are usually no hassles.

His men, he said, investigate crimes and carry out passport checks.

For only three visitors, passport checks and customs controls took nearly 40 minutes at each end.

This very small side street, packed between the buildings, has a passport check.

This has led to increased time per passport check so longer queues.

As the Guardian correctly reported yesterday the army will only be used for crowd-control and not passport checks.

Passengers that board flights at those gates are not subject to passport checks.