Police

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has made 83 appointments within the General Directorate of Security, which has resulted in the replacement of police chiefs in 52 of all 81 provinces across the country.

Among the changes, the police chiefs of 24 other provinces have been transferred to the headquarters.

New Citizen Protection Minister Notis Mitarakis on Wednesday announced a radical rethinking of the role and structural organization of the special university police force set up by the government in its previous term.

New Citizen Protection Minister Notis Mitarakis announced on Wednesdaya radical rethinking of the role and structural organization of the special university police force set up by the government in its previous term, possibly heralding its abolition.

The complete absence of traffic police from the center of Athens is impressive. Citizens are reminded that it exists only when officials are moving around or during demonstrations. 

Central intersections are constantly blocked and traffic lights are broken but the traffic police are absent. 

Police in Lesvos have conducted an operation to locate and bring to safety 10 newly arrived migrants to the northern Aegean island.

The operation, which was focused on the Plomari area in the south of the island, also involved coast guard, firefighters and a police aircraft.

French police have arrested nearly 1,000 people across the country during a fourth consecutive night of unrest, the interior ministry said. The reason for the riots was the killing of a teenager by the police during a road check in a Paris suburb.

Montenegrin Special Police Unit training in camp in the capital, Podgorica. Photo: Government of Montenegro

In its report, the Committee called on Interior Minister Filip Adzic, head of the Police Directorate Nikola Terzic and regional police directors to actively promote a culture change within law enforcement agencies.

Danilo Stevandi, the State Secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, told RTS that from tomorrow, there will be an increased presence of police officers at the elementary school "Vladislav Ribikar", where classes start.

There will be an increased police presence on the streets of Sofia because of the proms, which have already started. Traffic police teams will ensure that drivers do not violate traffic rules. Georgi Alexiev, Deputy Director of the Sofia Police, stated:

Elementary school in the Montenegrin capital Podgorica. Photo: BIRN/Samir Kajosevic

On May 3, a seventh-grade pupil shot dead a school security worker and eight pupils in the Serbian capital, Belgrade, while six other pupils and a history teacher were injured.