Crime prevention

Police have raised the alert level in Geneva following information that four suspects for Paris attacks are in the region.

“The Geneva police, on the basis of this information, have increased their level of vigilance and reinforced the number of police agents on the ground.” said police to Reuters.

Under the fear of terrorist attacks, Greece’s independent privacy regulator, the Hellenic Data Protection Authority (HDPA), gave the Athens metro company STASY permission to install security cameras inside 17 new metro trains serving lines 2 (Anthoupolis-Elliniko) and 3 (Agia Marina-Doukissis Plakentias – Airport).

Police and municipal authorities are stepping up security measures in Sofia in the wake of Friday's Paris terror attacks, bTV reported on Monday.

Interior Minister Rumyana Bachvarova and Sofia Mayor Yordanka Fandakova have discussed an increase of police presence at public places in which large numbers of people gather.

Here at our Hürriyet headquarters in Istanbul, we have been living together with policemen; the riot squads who have been here protecting us since the mob attacksI told you (I know, many times) I was in Kosovo serving in an international mission some time ago. There was a large Turkish police contingent serving there also, made up of very nice, intelligent, English-speaking ones; some of them w

Ten days after Serbia's Constitutional Court Law terminated the Law on Public Gatherings on October 23, it remains unclear how to go about organising a protest as the legal situation remains in limbo.

The quality of training and preparation of border police officers in Bulgaria has become extremely low over the past years, a former border police chief said on Tuesday.

The Hellenic Police has launched its tourist police Visitors’ Help Office in Athens aiming to help tourists visiting Greece providing them with necessary guidelines and information of a police and more general tourist interest.

This plan was initiated by the previous leadership of the civil protection ministry in collaboration with the Greek hoteliers’ chamber.

A military prosecutor's office has dismissed an investigation - publicly known as the "Cosmic Room" investigation - against eight suspects related to surveillance of a former colonel between late 2008 and late 2009, saying the surveillance activity was lawfully conducted upon a verbal order by a former head of the Turkish General Staff.

One of pavilions set up at the 2015 Thessaloniki EXPO that attracted the attention of the visitors was that of the Greek Police force. It wasn’t because of  any new technology or crime prevention gadget on display, but rather for Helen, a female police officer who was receiving guests.

Security has always been a major concern for humanity. After 9/11 we began to talk about it a lot more. Nowadays each and every one of us feels the need to be protected both in the real world and the digital one. It seems that the need for security will never cease. When there is a need there are solutions. There are many companies which claim that they can guarantee your safety.