Gendarmerie

Previously, it was reported to the police around 17:30 that a large number of high school graduates entered the lake on Ada Ciganlija, and that two people did not swim out.
Police patrols, as well as the Diving Unit of the Gendarmerie, were immediately sent to the scene and began the search.

The Interior Ministry has implemented extensive security measures across Türkiye to ensure the smooth conduct of the presidential runoff election.

An accident with the motorcade of the chief prosecutor Ivan Geshev occurred on the road between Sofia and Samokov. According to information from the National Television, the chief prosecutor was supposed to travel to Turkey. Before leaving, he decided to go to a meeting with junior prosecutors in the Samokov region.

A police operation began this morning in Kazanlak. The news was reported by the Bulgarian National Television.

The operation is against usury and the distribution of drugs. Persons with criminal record are checked.

On the photo: Zlatko Baretata

Within a few hours today, on the Trakia highway, officers from the Directorate and the Zonal Gendarmerie Unit detained two motor vehicle drivers and a total of 56 illegally staying foreigners. One of the drivers is an employee of the Ministry of the Interior.

The U.S. Coast Guard spent hours Thursday searching the waters off Louisiana for four people on board a helicopter that crashed while departing an oil platform.
The search lasted eight hours and for now, it is not known whether the search will continue today before noon, the AP reported.

Sergeant Didem Balıkcı, the first and only woman sniper of the Turkish Armed Forces, has urged citizens not to carry guns, stressing that it is only their job to keep arms to protect civilians.

"As part of our profession, we live with arms. We have to use them when it is our duty to do so. Civilians do not need to take up arms, I'm against individual armament," she said.

A large-scale police operation is currently underway in Karnobat. The operation was carried out by officers of the General Directorate of the National Police with the assistance of the gendarmerie and the Regional Directorate of the Ministry of Interior in Burgas.

A Greek police officer who was detained in Turkey's northwestern province of Edirne on Dec. 5 has been released by a local court with a ban on traveling abroad as authorities continue to sweep their mobile phones.

Traffic is restricted on Thursday, in the area of Charles de Gaulle Square in central Bucharest, after an American helicopter participating in a training flight for Aviation Day, landed in a roundabout. As a result of the incident, two cars and two lighting poles were damaged, according to the representatives of the Road Brigade.