Greece

Police have made over 30 arrests in Thessaloniki after they clashed with protesters who were demonstrating against a new education bill.

Greek police and coast guard are making strict checks in ports and national highways to thwart residents of metropolitan areas from travelling to the provinces for Easter. As the death toll in Greece has reached 89 - after a 67-year-old...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, accompanied by Citizen's Protection Minister Michael Chrysochoides, presented the new ''DIAS'' police unit on Monday in Athens, pledging more security on the streets of Athens and in Greece overall. ''DIAS'' is an already-existing motorcycle unit...

Four police officers were injured when a police station in central Athens was attacked with Molotov cocktails on Monday evening. A group of about 50 self-styled anarchists firebombed the station near Omonia Square that also damaged several vehicles. The assailants hurled...

Two police officers were injured in Limassol on Saturday night after their patrol car was shot several times, according to the Cyprus News Agency (CNA). The police officers were called to go to Ipsonas for a check on a parked...

Hellenic Police on Saturday arrested a man smuggling migrants after a car chase, as the man refused to stop on a routine road block on the old Thessaloniki-Kavala national highway. Police said the 39-year-old refused to stop when a patrolman...

Greek police brace once again for the violence that is programmed to erupt this Wednesday, on the 9th anniversary of the slaying of teenager Alexandros Grigoropoulos by a policeman on December 6, 2008. It has become a sad tradition that every...

A large group of men assaulted a police patrol vehicle at Evelpidon Street court complex in downtown Athens on Thursday. The officers were carrying a suspect arrested earlier when they came under the attack of around 20 men, as...

The economic crisis in Greece has forced public organizations to keep in use vehicles that should have been scrapped years ago, according to a Kathimerini newspaper report. Most ambulances of the National Health System are hardly operational, drivers and paramedics...

The Hellenic Police has dismantled a 32-person drug ring that includes three low-rank army officers, a fire department contract employee and a policeman. All people arrested on charges of drug trafficking are Greek nationals aged 22-57 years. The large-scale operation...

Hundreds of police cars and fire trucks remain immobilized as there are no funds for their repair or replacement, according to Greek Police and Fire Department officials. The economic crisis has caused significant problems in the daily operation of the...

Nikos Dendias presented the new system, called Center of Integrated Border and Immigration Administration, which will enable safer guarding of the Greek boarders and thus greater control on the number of immigrants who enter Greece. Greek Minister of Public...

Greek police are concerned about the potential for further attacks similar to that carried out against the German Ambassador's residence last Monday. It is also reported that members of the Greek Special Anti Terrorist Unit (EKAM) will be placed...

Three Greek Cypriot police officers were detained by Turkish troops yesterday after they entered the buffer zone near the village of Dhali while chasing a Turkish Cypriot vehicle whose driver failed to stop for a check. The incident happened at...

As seen in the video, unidentified policemen stopped an immigrant in the middle of the road, he raised his hands up high, and they attacked him, throwing him on the ground and beating him. The man is said to...