Hellenic Police

Police in Attica have launched data-driven, area-specific patrols in a pilot program designed to combat a rise in thefts, robberies and burglaries.

The Hellenic Police (ELAS) is bolstering security for potential Turkish targets in the Greek capital and other parts of the country amid concerns about anarchist reactions to Turkey's operations in Syria. Increased patrols will also extend to potential American targets.

After two meetings in Athens with a US agent who was posing as a weapons dealer, Rami Ghanem returned to the Greek capital in December 2015 to check on his order: 200 American-built automatic weapons, night vision scopes and thermal imaging cameras, among other items.

Firefighting authorities are on tenterhooks after investigators ruled that a large blaze in Nea Makri, east of Athens, Thursday was the result of arson, the seventh such incident in nine days.

Greek police confirmed Wednesday that a body found at the bottom of a ravine at the Aegean island of Ikaria belongs to the British scientist who went missing while on holiday.
The ravine is located near the rented rooms where the woman was staying with her 38-year-old boyfriend. No further details were provided by police.

Rescue crews searching for a British scientist who went missing while on holiday on an Aegean Sea island found a body on Wednesday afternoon in a ravine close to the rented rooms where the woman was staying.

Police investigators are testing DNA and trying to decipher mobile phone signals in Natalie Christopher's disappearance, the British woman who went missing on a Greek island while on vacation with her Cypriot boyfriend.

Prosecutors in Athens and the Hellenic Police's (ELAS) Internal Affairs department are investigating allegations that the current head of the country's fire service, Vasilis Mattheopoulos, violated public sector laws on conflict of interest by presiding over an annual evaluation of fellow officers in the aftermath of the deadly blaze in eastern Attica last year, Kathimerini has learned.

The Hellenic Police (ELAS) was not aware of the anti-drug operation conducted by the Coast Guard in the central Athenian district of Exarchia on Thursday night, where two officers were injured in an ambush by masked men, Citizens' Protection Minister Olga Gerovasili said on Friday.
"ELAS didn't go there, it was not informed," she reportedly told radio station News247.

The criminalization of libel, allegations of pushbacks of asylum seekers, corruption and violence targeting LGBTQI people and refugee women and children were the main human rights abuses recorded in Greece in 2018, according to a US State Department report.