ELAS creates new department for domestic violence

The Greek Police (ELAS) has created a new department for dealing with domestic violence and providing specialist training to officers around the country on how to prevent and manage crimes within the family.

Staff at the new department will have specific guidelines on how to file and build domestic violence cases, on how to handle victims and also on raising public awareness.

ELAS will also create a database recording all incidents of domestic violence, with details concerning the perpetrators and their victims.

The initiative foresees two central departments at police headquarters in Athens and Thessaloniki, in northern Greece, as well as at the main precincts of each of the country's regions. It will further include a manual that will be distributed to police departments all over the country with detailed information on domestic violence prevention and...