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A police officer who was arrested on Sunday on the island of Crete and accused of extortion, bribery of an employee and breach of duty was on Tuesday placed on administrative leave by decision of the Greek Police Headquarters.

A program to train at least one police officer in every police station in the country in animal rights issues will begin on Wednesday.

The officers will be trained to deal with cases related to animal abuse, be they strays, pets, working or game animals, exotic species and others, the police said.

This was announced by the State Secretary in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Danilo Stevandi.
Stevandi said that MIA will hire 1,200 new police officers this year.

He also said that China will train 2,000 law enforcement personnel from member countries over the next five years

Floyd is just one of many U.S. citizens who die each year during police action, and statistics show that U.S. police shoot, arrest, and imprison more people than in other developed countries.

A traffic police officer wearing a protective mask checks the documents of a driver at the Elefsina toll station, 30 kilometers west of Athens.

Deputy Citizens' Protection Minister Lefteris Economou on Friday defended the police officers involved in the controversial eviction of 15 minors from two Athens movie theaters showing the "R" rated fantasy thriller "Joker" last weekend.

Traffic police officers are beginning to sanction the owners of electric scooters, as they are not legally allowed to move on the road network in Bulgaria, the head of the Traffic Police-Sofia Commissioner Lyubomir Kostadinov told the BNR.

Kostadinov added that the first incidents with scooters were registered. And he appeals to the drivers to be very careful.

Over 400 police officers, fire-fighters, officials of Plovdiv Municipality and volunteers took part in operations dealing with the crisis situation in Plovdiv, the spokesperson of the Plovdiv Police Department told Focus Radio Plovdiv.

More than 2,800 petty crimes were registered by the police during the Easter holiday, with about 22,000 fines and 1,324 drivers' licenses lifted, on Monday informs the Romanian Police General Inspectorate (IGPR) in a release.