Police

Police in Athens were investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of an unidentified individual whose charred remains were discovered in a basement in Kypseli, central Athens, on Wednesday.

The body was discovered by firemen who were called to the scene to put out a blaze in the apartment.

BELGRADE - Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic met Wednesday with the representatives of the Ministry of Justice, the Prosecutor's Office and the trade unions, and stressed that the government will take measures to protect police officers in view of the growing number of assaults on them, some of which ended fatally.

Regional police benefit from introducing EU standards, practices

Nations are sharing ways to accomplish the goals of community policing.

Balkan police forces are introducing EU norms and practices in their work, leading to more accountable and transparent police forces, experts said.

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Dozens of Turkish police officers, including a former chief of a police financial unit, were detained on Sept. 1 in the third wave of arrests over allegations that officers were involved in plotting against the government.

The last of three suspects linked to the attempted murder of an Australian businessman on the Ionian island of Zakynthos was taken into custody on Saturday, police reported.

An exchange of fire between two gunmen who held up a meat hypermarket in the area of Rendi, southern Athens, and officers of the police's motorcycling unit DIAS late on Thursday resulted in the fatal injury of one of the suspects while the other was arrested, police said.

The family of a young Istanbul architect who committed suicide in 2010 after being subjected to police torture has submitted an individual complaint to Turkey’s Constitutional Court, after the Council of State approved a decision that rejected the relatives’ appeal regarding “insufficient punishment for police officers.”

A survey laid bare the distrust the public harbors toward police in the United States on Monday, the same day a funeral was held for a black teenager shot dead by a white policeman.
      

Serbia, Macedonia police fighting crime in rural areas

A new community policing-based approach improves police access to citizens.

Police in Macedonia and Serbia are employing new strategies to reach rural areas to address local issues and cross-border crime, officials said.

U.S. President Barack Obama has ordered a review of the distribution of military hardware to state and local police out of concern at how such equipment has been used during racial unrest in Ferguson, Missouri.