Police

Sofia. A total of 932 police officers have been deployed on the Black Sea coast during the summer tourist season, the Ministry of Interior's National Police Directorate told Focus News Agency.

As a political debate about who was responsible for last week's fatal wildfires continued, radio conversations between senior police and traffic police officials obtained by Kathimerini depict their alarm on the night that the blaze raged out of control, confounding the tactics of the authorities.

As part of the measures aimed at preventing violence against doctors and other health workers, gendarmerie forces are deployed to public hospitals along with police officers.

An amendment was submitted to Parliament on Thursday whereby physical attacks against tax inspectors will be considered a criminal offense.

Accordingly, the offense will be equated with attacks on police officers, port authority officials and other state officials.

The amendment was tabled in the wake of a recent spike in attacks against tax inspectors. 

Istanbul police are searching for a masked group of thieves who stole around $150,000 from an exchange bureau early on July 23, local media has reported.

Police are investigating the death of a 25-year-old farm laborer from Morocco who was found hanging from a tree near his home in Elafonisi, southwestern Crete.

The incident was reported to police by fellow workers who made the discovery on Wednesday.

No more information was immediately available about the case.

Two members of anarchist group Rouvikonas were brought in for questioning at Attica's police headquarters on Thursday, after policemen saw about 10 people acting suspiciously outside the Austrian embassy in Athens' Kolonaki district.

The Council of Europe's Committee for the Prevention of Torture, CPT, on Thursday urged Serbia to investigate and curb the police's "accepted practice" of using violence to force confessions and punish suspects.

The Brazilian police have killed 5012 people last year, 19 percent more than 2016, a local news site reported and was quoted by DPA.

The woman was a cashier at the store. The shooter is in critical condition. 

The 54-year-old man shot a 46-year-old woman at a supermarket in a seaside resort of St. Vlas, then shot himself in the head, FOCUS News Agency reported, referring to information from the Municipal Police Directorate of Burgas.