Police

Six suspects have been arrested, authorities in Serres, northeastern Greece, said on Monday as police cracked down on a Greek-Albanian criminal drugs racket.

Police said they are looking for another four suspects, including an Albanian national believed to be the leader of the organization.

Police were investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a 31-year-old man in Korydallos, eastern Athens, in the early hours of Wednesday.

Initial reports suggested the man was at a local restaurant when an unknown assailant shot him twice before fleeing the scene of the crime on foot.

A policeman was among four people arrested on Friday in connection with an escort agency in Athens.

The officer, reportedly a member of the security police, ran a website offering to arrange dates with female escorts who also had sex with their clients.

Another man and two women were arrested.

The Council of State, the country’s highest administrative court, on Friday ruled that members of the police and the armed forces should be allowed to sport tattoos as long as these are located on parts of the body that are covered by their uniforms when they are on duty.

Citing the results of forensic tests, police indicated on Tuesday that Nikos Maziotis, the self-professed leader of the guerrilla group Revolutionary Struggle who has been at large since July 2012, took part in a violent robbery last month in Achaia, in the Peloponnese.

Police sources on Thursday defended the fact that Golden Dawn PARTY spokesman Ilias Kasidiaris, who faces charges of being a member of a criminal organization, was allowed to observe the Resurrection ceremony on Saturday at a church located within the grounds of the Public Order Ministry.

Police were unable to arrest on Saturday two men that failed to stop their vehicle when asked to pull over in the eastern Athens neighborhood of Ilissia and then opened fire on officers who pursued them.

OPATIJA - Outgoing interior minister Ivica Dacic stated in Opatija on Wednesday that police cooperation in the region is very good and that it even surpasses the cooperation between political bodies in certain countries, which is producing positive results in international police cooperation in the Balkans and South-East Europe.

Police spokesman arrested for endangering safety

BELGRADE -- Radomir Počuča, a spokesman for the PTJ police unit, and member of the SNP Naši ("Ours") organization Ivan Ivanović have been arrested.

They were brought in for questioning on Monday on the order of the Prosecution for High Technological Crime.

DIMITROVGRAD - In a joint operation by police forces from seven regional countries, named "Nisava 2014", a large amount of foreign currency was seized as well as a so-called ATM skimmer - a fraud device used for stealing customer bank card data, chief of Serbia's border police Nenad Banovic said on Monday in Dimitrovgrad.