police

Recent INTERPOL statistics detailing the number of policemen per national capita has revealed that Greece is among the most policed countries in the EU, falling just behind Cyprus and Spain. The map's creator, Ramiro Gómez, used data from Wikipedia's list of police...

A man who has spent years deceiving elderly Greeks – among them the mother of Health Minister Makis Voridis – has just been arrested in the Menidi of Attica following a chase with police officers. The minister of health's mother...

A young man was arrested on Wednesday in the Vyronas neighborhood of southeast Athens as part of a police operation to stop an impending terrorist attack against the Greek capital. According to Greek Police, the man arrested is Andonis Stamboulos, born in...

The Anti-terrorism squad is on alert in Athens and Thessaloniki, Greece, after they unveiled a hideout in the area of Kolonaki downtown Athens and another one in the northern port city of Thessaloniki. The Greek Police Anti-terrorism squad are searching...

Greek police in the port of Patras in southern Greece have recently arrested five members of a migrant trafficking group operating out of Greece and Italy. A sixth member remains undetained. The traffickers were arrested while attempting to convey 13 foreigners...

Women police officers are expected to arrive in Heraklion, Crete, over the next few weeks, beautifying the local police force with their presence. Women police officers will be visiting the Cretan city from across the globe in order to participate in the "1st...

Members of the Greek armed forces protested in Athens on Wednesday morning against the Greek government's plans to merge their auxiliary pension funds with others. According to the president of the Panhellenic Federation of Police Officers, Christos Fotopoulos, Greek police officers...

A 52-year-old father of four, from the city of Ptolemaida, in Macedonia northern Greece is accused of molesting five girls, aged nine to sixteen. Everything started last Sunday, when the 52 year-old  man molested a 9-year-old girl. When the girl returned home...

A major joint European police operation aimed at tackling illegal migration, planned and overseen by Greece for the first time, was carried out on May 5-11 in the context of the Greek EU Presidency, it was announced on Monday. The...

The Supreme Court of Victoria has the final word concerning the right of police officers to have a beard. Sergeant Vasilis Chrisanthakopoulos and fifteen of his colleagues applied to the Supreme Court of Victoria to defend their right to have...