Hellenic Police

New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Tuesday that he has asked the head of the Hellenic Police (ELAS) to reduce the number of officers assigned to guard the party's offices by 20 percent, so they can return to neighborhood patrol amid a spike in crime.

Leftist SYRIZA's radical Group of 53 faction has condemned the use of "unjustifiable violence" by riot police officers, referring to clashes with demonstrators protesting property foreclosures in Athens on Wednesday.

In a statement, the group questioned "whether there is the political will to curb and ultimately wipe out phenomena of suppression."

Citizens' Protection Minister Nikos Toskas on Thursday responded to criticism that he is not doing enough to curb a recent spate of anarchist-related violence by suggesting that the Hellenic Police (ELAS) is to blame.

Alternate Minister for Citizens Protection Nikos Toskas said in London that Hellenic Police will recruit foreigners who live in Greece, citing the example of Scotland Yard.

"We are obliged to examine such approaches so as to maintain order in the best possible way," Toskas stated according to a report in Ta Nea newspaper in Athens on Friday.

In a letter to Citizens' Protection Minister Nikos Toskas, the union of Hellenic Police officers (POASY) on Wednesday underlined its opposition to a government decision to boost security for notarial firms involved in controversial property foreclosures.

In a letter to Citizens' Protection Minister Nikos Toskas, the union of Hellenic Police officers (POASY) on Wednesday underlined its opposition to a government decision to boost security for notarial firms involved in controversial property foreclosures.

The union of Hellenic Police officers on Tuesday issued a strongly worded announcement opposing a government decision to beef up security for notarial firms involved in controversial foreclosures.

The investigation into the paint attack at the Israeli Embassy in Athens at 6 a.m. on Christmas Day has revealed lapses in security procedures, according to sources.

A police operation set up with support from Europol has resulted in the disbandment of an extensive network that supplied more than 1 million euros' worth of forged passports and other travel documents to migrant smuggling rings, the Hellenic Police (ELAS) said on Friday.

A policeman has reportedly shot and killed his daughter, his wife and his mother-in-law before taking his own life in the northern Athens suburb of Aghii Anargyri.

The child was three-and-a-half years old, according to initial reports.