Municipal police

A much greater number of violations related to the placement of table seating in public spaces were recorded in the first quarter of this year in the Greek capital, City of Athens data have shown. 

More violations of the regulations on the placement on table seating in public places were recorded in the first quarter of the year in Athens, data from the Athens Municipality has shown.

From January to April, Municipal police found 1,246 cases violations of the regulations on table seating, an increase of 54% on the same period in 2023.

Municipal and state police officers have been thrown into the effort to convince hundreds of contrary residents in the northern port city of Thessaloniki to abide by health regulations calling for self-isolation amid the coronavirus epidemic.

In an effort to encourage citizens to avoid public transport as part of the push to contain the spread of the coronavirus, the City of Athens will allow free parking in slots marked P-69 for 14 days as of Wednesday. 

Taking the first step in its bid to finally enforce a ban on smoking in public places that was introduced a decade ago, the Health Ministry on Monday sent a circular to regional and inspection authorities, instructing them to intensify checks. 

Motorists who have had their license plates confiscated by the Athens Municipal Police for minor infringements will be able to retrieve them ahead of the Easter break, a measure aimed at facilitating holidaymakers over the long weekend.

Municipal authorities in Athens have been stepping up checks on cafes, bars and restaurants around the city center to crack down on the encroachment of sidewalks and pedestrian streets with tables and chairs.

The municipal police force will get back to Athens’s streets as of next week, according to an announcement of Municipality of Athens, two years after it was disbanded.

The city force will be informing residents and visitors of their role and responsibilities by distributing informative leaflets as part of an information campaign which will last until October 25.

A municipal police officer who shot a district mayor in the northwestern province of Bursa was arrested late May 24, state-run Anadolu Agency reported. 

The police officer, identified as F.B., shot Cüneyt Y?ld?z, the mayor of the Gürsu district of Bursa, along with his security guard, Yener ?im?ek, on May 20. 

The municipal police force, disbanded in the summer of 2013 as part of the previous government?s cutbacks, is to become operational again but with less than half its original members.