Sofia Directorate

The Ministry of the Interior, along with the Metropolitan Directorate, will support Bulgarian citizens without valid ID documents to ensure they can vote in the upcoming National Assembly elections on October 27, 2024. The "Bulgarian Identity Documents" Directorate has implemented measures to assist voters.

Bulgarian firefighters left for Greece today to help their colleagues in fighting the fires, the Interior Ministry said.

Acting on information received about organised dog fights involving pit bulls, on 14 April, officers from the Sofia and Samokov police departments conducted an operation in a wooded area near Lake Iskar, in Pancharevo, said the Sofia Directorate of the Ministry of the Interior.

Police officers of the National Police and Sofia Directorate of the Ministry of the Interior arrested a 35-year-old man in connection with ATM thefts, said the Ministry of the Interior press office. 

Mechanism for immediate response in the events of assaults against medical staff was established by the police and the Regional Prosecutor's Office in Sofia on 26th of September. Their representatives met with hospital directors and the emergency medical service in order to explain to them how to act if there was an incident of violence by patients. By the end of the month.

''I have already chosen the head of Sofia Directorate of the Ministry of Interior Mladen Marinov as Chief Secretary of the Interior Ministry'', said the new Interior Minister Valentin Radev in an interview for bTV.

Traffic police will be increasing routine checks for drink and drug driving and driving licence, as well as for the most dangerous offence - speeding, police officer Nikolay Krusharsky, Sofia Directorate of the Interior, told reporters, as cited by FOCUS News Agency.

"There are fewer cars on the roads at weekends, which encourages drivers to speed up," Krusharsky said.

The body of a man was found in front of a residential building on Gurgulyat Str. in Sofia, announced the press centre of Sofia Directorate of the Interior, quoted by FOCUS News Agency.

The authorities were notified at a little before 7:00 Bulgarian time today, April 25.

A Coordination Centre for Counteracting Illegal Migration has been established with Chief Directorate Border Police, announced the Ministry of Interior.

Bulgarian authorities detained three migrant traffickers from Algeria, Iran and Iraq in Sofia on Friday.

They are suspected of organising the illegal transfer of immigrants from Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Middle East to Western Europe via the territories of Turkey, Bulgaria and Serbia.