Police

French police said on Tuesday they opened an inquiry after a Chinese man was shot dead by police at his Paris home, triggering riots in the French capital by members of the Chinese community and a diplomatic protest by Beijing.

The National Police Chief Directorate voiced to media that a total of 14,000 uniformed police officers are to be deployed across Bulgaria during the early parliamentary election on March 26, according to BNR.

There are going to be 7,319 election spots with a total of 12,294 poll stations. The police assure that these are the common measures for such an event.

A large-scale operation with the participation of 2,000 police officers from anti-narcotics and anti-terror teams was launched in Istanbul on the morning of March 23. 

Checkpoints were established in parts of the city for the operation, called "Kurtkapanı-2," which means Wolf Creek in Turkish. 

An Istanbul court on Feb. 8 issued an arrest warrant for an Istanbul deputy police chief, one day after he was released after testifying on charges of drug trafficking.

Deputy prime ministers and interior ministers of Serbia and Belgium on Tuesday signed an agreement on police cooperation.

The agreement allows for broader top-level exchange of information, exchange of police officers and establishment of joint investigative teams to make the fight against organized crime and terrorism more efficient, Tanjug has reported.

Turkish police have been seeking three suspects who ran away from the entrance of Istanbul's Atatürk Airport despite police's warnings. Police have warned the suspects in a minibus to stop, but the minibus turned away and escaped while the police fired shots at the tires of the vehicle in order to stop them. 

One suspect was killed and another one was wounded after clashes erupted with police during an anti-drug operation in Istanbul on Jan. 31, Doğan News Agency has reported.

The operation was carried out by Istanbul police in the Gaziosmanpaşa district at 5:00 a.m.

A man drowned in a water tank in an abandoned building on Deligiorgi Street in the central Omonia area of Athens late Sunday, police said on Monday.

The victim had allegedly been trying to run away from a man whose phone he had just stolen, police said.

It was not clear why he climbed into the water tank.

The U.S. embassy has advised U.S. citizens in Serbia of recent incidents of persons impersonating police to enter private homes for criminal purposes.

This is according to a security message posted on the website of the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Security (OSAC).