A police officer was arrested by the force’s internal affairs division for multiple fraud and violations of weapon laws, the Ministry of Citizen Protection said in a press release on Thursday.
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A police officers association says it is planning legal action after names and details of hundreds of officers from a new elite crime-fighting agency were published on the internet.
A police officer was arrested Wednesday in the Thessaly region on bribery charges.
The last thing that would have excited public opinion, be it in a spontaneous or contrived manner, in early July this past summer, was the announcement from the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) on the actions of various institutional tentacles of the Greek state.
A man from Bangladesh was found dead in a police cell in central Athens on Tuesday morning.
The president of Cyprus on Sunday fired the chief of police, his deputy and the acting director of the country’s central prisons complex following the embarrassing escape of a convicted murderer while under guard during an eight-hour pass to visit family.
Citizen Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis has called for an investigation by the Greek Ombudsman into the death of a 37-year-old Pakistani national while in custody at the Agios Panteleimonas police station in central Athens.
A preliminary investigation is underway by the Agios Panteleimonas Security Department concerning the death on September 21 of a 37-year-old Pakistani national, Muhammad Kamran Ashiq, inside the police station of the central Athens neighborhood.
Paramedics called to a police precinct in central Athens last Saturday to pick up a 38-year-old migrant from Pakistan found him dead.
A riot police unit stationed in Athens’ central Exarchia district was attacked by unidentified assailants late Thursday, according to reports.
Police arrested three gang members accused of carrying out multiple home and store robberies in central Athens.
The Citizen Protection Ministry is reportedly drafting a bill seeking the radical transformation of the Hellenic Police (ELAS).
An updated strategy for handling fan violence has been developed by the Ministry of Citizen Protection, which provides for the involvement of the National Intelligence Service (EYP) and the nation’s counterterrorism authority.
The Hellenic Police announced on Monday that an officer reportedly responsible for vulgar social media posts had retired in 2021.
Government spokesperson Pavlos Marinakis called on Sunday for SYRIZA leader Stefanos Kasselakis to expel MEP Nikos Pappas from the party after a private Instagram conversation in which Pappas appeared to make offensive remarks against a police officer was leaked online.
A 42-year-old man reportedly took his own life early Thursday morning in the detention cells at the Hellenic Police headquarters in Thessaloniki.
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