According to Justice Minister Robert Pelikan, up to 70 Prison Service employees will be deployed to the task as part of their regular job.
Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka said, for his part, that earlier this week, "the government approved a decree allowing the deployment of Prison Service employees" at the migrant detention centers.
He added that the decision comes in response to the ongoing migrant crisis, and that it is necessary to reinforce the capacities in the detention facilities that were abolished in the past.
Pelikan, in turn, said that the details of the deployment are yet to be revealed. According to him, the Prison Service employees will probably be deployed at a former prison in the village of Drahonice, located at the South Bohemian Region.
Earlier this month, the prison was reportedly turned into a new detention center for up to 240 migrants.
He was echoed by the Czech Republic's ombudsman Anna Sabatova, who also condemned the conditions in a detention facility for asylum-seekers, saying that they violate the UN's Convention on the Rights of the Child and the European Convention on Human Rights.
A total of 2,400 refugees have already been detained in the Czech Republic, with 123 of them filing complaints, officials said.
