Police

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.

Unknown individuals burgled the home of two police officers in Pangrati, central Athens, at the weekend and made off with two guns, magazines and cartridges, reports said on Monday.
According to police sources cited by the Athens-Macedonian News Agency, the burglers broke into the officers' home while they were absent and also stole a small amount of money.

More than 10 people were detained in Blagoevgrad in a case of GDBOP and National Security, BNT reported.
 
So far, there is no official information from the Blagoevgrad police because the action is done by teams from Sofia and the local police only cooperated. At this stage, the purpose of the action is also not clear.
 

An order issued by the Greek Police (ELAS) for the transfer of officers from various departments to boost riot police units in Athens and Thessaloniki has prompted an angry response from the union representing police workers, who complain that all departments are understaffed. 

One of Australia's busiest international airports was locked down after a man brandished a knife and made a bomb threat at a food court, prompting travellers to flee in panic, officials said Sunday, reported AFP.

Four officers from the 4th police department have been charged with taking part in a criminal group, influence peddling and fraud, the Ministry of Interior said. The group, made up of officers of the economic police unit, extorted money from retailers under the threat of police inspections and in exchange for warnings ahead of inspections.

U.S. singer Chris Brown and two other people were released Tuesday from police custody after a woman filed a rape complaint against them, the Paris prosecutor's office said.

High-ranking police officers and officials from the Ministry of Citizen's Protection, which oversees security forces, defended police's handling of disturbances during Sunday's rally against the Prespa Agreement between Greece and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM).

Police have launched an investigation into the deaths of a 34-year-old policeman and his 23-year-old girlfriend whose bodies were found in the former's home in Porto Heli, on the eastern coast of the Peloponnese.

According to the Athens-Macedonian News Agency, police are not treating the incident as a possible crime, though a coroner was to determine the cause of death.

Major security measures are being introduced in Plovdiv for the official ceremony with which the city becomes the European Capital of Culture, reported the Bulgarian National Television.