Crime prevention

Two unidentified men were involved in a petrol station armed robbery on Irakliou Avenue, in Neo Heraklion, Athens, the early hours of Monday. The two individuals forced the cashier of the petrol station at gun point to hand over the cash before fleeing the scene. Police investigations are under way to detect and apprehend the culprits.

Unbelievable video footage from a town in China shows a car ramming into a fast food store at high speed. The footage was captured from the store’s CCTV security cam, Customers can be seen in the store as the vehicle suddenly hurts onto the scene! The velocity of the vehicle can be ascertained by the fact that at some point it is in mid air as it enters the shop.

One of the two attackers of a cash security van in the Bulgarian town of Sredets, Burgas Region, has confessed to an armed robbery attempt, the Ministry of the Interior said on Monday.

The Albanian police have started to equip their forces in the field with body cameras that they must wear on appointed shifts.

Tirana is the first city where police forces have started to use their cameras. Some 584 have been bought and are now being installed into police uniforms in the city.

A police union says Serbia's new Law on Police, adopted on January 26, gives too much discretionary powers to the Interior Minister - and leaves the police subject to excessive political influence.

Bozo Petrov, head of MOST, the party that emerged as a kingmaker from the general election, on Thursday declined to take part in a TV duel with Interior Minister Ranko Ostojic over claims that he has been under police surveillance.

A transgender passenger was forced to remove a prosthetic penis for inspection while going through airport security.

He said he went through a body scanner at the airport which picked up the prosthetic he was wearing in his underwear, as Daily Mail reports.

Turkey is prepared for any kind of cyberattack, according to the country's technology minister, who said "all necessary measures are being taken" over the latest cyberattack which targeted hundreds of thousands of Turkish websites.

Police found on Monday noon the car of the two missing young men during the investigations carried out at Messolonghi, Etoloakarnania and the wider area.

The car was found in an irrigation canal at Acheloos river, next to the road and just a few meters away the village of Katoxi on the way to Lesini village where security cameras had recorded them.

The Bulgarian government authorised on Wednesday Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Rumyana Bachvarova to conclude a contract with Microsoft for participation in the Government Security Programme.

The State Agency for National Security (DANS) was selected as main contact point for the programme, the press service of the government informs.