Crime prevention

The Parliament approved the annual report on Bulgaria's national security for 2016, according to bTV.

The report concludes that general criminality decreased, while the effectiveness of investigations increased. 

The family of businessman Michalis Lempidakis plans to donate new patrol vehicles and equipment to the Greek police force in a show of appreciation, after law enforcement officers managed to detect and release the man from his abductors in Crete. wanted to go today to his company, the Plastics Crete plant.

The construction of a concrete barrier along hundreds of kilometers of Turkey's border with Syria is expected to be completed by the end of September, a Turkish official told state-run Anadolu Agency on Sept. 22.

A total of 731 kilometers (454 miles) of the border wall has already been finished, the official told the agency.

Theresa May last night raised the terror threat level to critical as police scrambled to identify the attackers who tried to blow up a packed Tube train during the morning rush hour, in the fourth assault to strike London this year. At least 29 people were injured in the blast and stampede, including victims requiring hospital treatment for severe burns.

Security cameras footage has been published showing the shooting earlier this month of a police officer in Novi Pazar, southwestern Serbia.

The Turkish Interior Ministry is set to introduce a bunch of new security measures in and around school premises before the academic year starts on Sept. 18, daily Habertürk reported on Sept. 8.
 

Foreign and Greek companies are reportedly showing a keen interest in the project to develop a 60-million-euro maritime surveillance system.

The project - named the National Integrated Maritime Surveillance System (ESOST) - will include drones flying over Greek seas, the installation of low-light and thermal radiation cameras, as well as satellite monitoring services.

The number of private security personnel in Turkey has risen by 92 percent over the past six years, according to figures from the Interior Ministry.

Some 386 "night watchmen" started patrolling the streets of Istanbul from late Aug. 13, which state-run Anadolu Agency described as a bid to "enhance safety in the city."

Police are hunting two armed robbers in the capital Ankara who escaped with 400,000 Turkish Liras ($113,000) in cash as it was being transferred to an ATM early on Aug. 9.

The incident occurred in Ankara's Yenimahalle district, where two armed suspects apprehended security guards who were on duty transferring cash from a bank to an ATM.