Hellenic Police

Hellenic Police (ELAS) on Sunday reported the arrest of five migrant smugglers in two separate operations in Thessaloniki, in northern Greece. The five perpetrators were planning to help a total of 53 migrants to illegally cross Greece's northern border with...

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...

Hellenic Police on Monday are in the process of evacuating a makeshift migrant camp next to a gas station at Polykastro in northern Greece. Since 7:30 in the morning, about 300 men of riot police have started the operation of...

A friend and classmate of the 14-year-old who was found dead in Gefyra, Thessaloniki, Greece, on Sunday confessed that he is responsible for the killing. The teenager was found dead with his carotid cut on Sunday. Thessaloniki police initiated an...

Two men on a motorcycle fatally shot a foreign man on Themistokleous Street in the Exarchia neighborhood in Athens, at 11:30 am on Tuesday. The perpetrators wore motorcycle helmets and -- according to witnesses who called the police -- were...

Dozens of weapons and thousands of rounds were seized in a massive police operation that dismantled a criminal organization, with Police Special Guards among them. The ring operated in Crete and Attica since 2007, selling weapons and ammunition. Its members...

The evacuation of the makeshift migrant camp at Idomeni is not going according to the plan of Greek authorities as many migrants refuse to board the buses that would carry them to official hospitality facilities. According to a Skai television...

According to Hellenic Police, the unaccompanied missing refugee children in Greece in 2014 and 2015 amount to 1,096, as 1,481 were reported missing and 385 were found. Greek police say that out of the 1,096 children missing, only 16 are...

After 21 years of hard, effective work, Manolis Sfakianakis, director of the Cyber Crime Division of the Hellenic Police has been transferred to another department. He didn't lose his Major General Rank but essentially he was demoted to a...

Zacharoula Tsirigoti is the first woman Lieutenant General in Hellenic Police, thanks to her work on the refugee crisis. The High Council of Hellenic Police promoted Tsirigoti to the rank of lieutenant-general on Tuesday. Tsirigoti was Head of Immigration and...