Police

An exchange of fire between two gunmen who held up a meat hypermarket in the area of Rendi, southern Athens, and officers of the police's motorcycling unit DIAS late on Thursday resulted in the fatal injury of one of the suspects while the other was arrested, police said.

The family of a young Istanbul architect who committed suicide in 2010 after being subjected to police torture has submitted an individual complaint to Turkey’s Constitutional Court, after the Council of State approved a decision that rejected the relatives’ appeal regarding “insufficient punishment for police officers.”

A survey laid bare the distrust the public harbors toward police in the United States on Monday, the same day a funeral was held for a black teenager shot dead by a white policeman.
      

Serbia, Macedonia police fighting crime in rural areas

A new community policing-based approach improves police access to citizens.

Police in Macedonia and Serbia are employing new strategies to reach rural areas to address local issues and cross-border crime, officials said.

U.S. President Barack Obama has ordered a review of the distribution of military hardware to state and local police out of concern at how such equipment has been used during racial unrest in Ferguson, Missouri.
   

A gunfight between police and a group reportedly linked to organized crime has left at least one dead and four injured in the Turkish capital, Ankara.

The clash occurred in Dikmen neighborhood on Aug. 23 when a unit from the Ankara Police Department Organized Crime Control Bureau came under fire after they stopped a vehicle, according to Doğan News Agency.

A gunfight between police and an unidentified group has left at least one dead and four injured in the Turkish capital, Ankara.

The clash occured in Cevizlidere Huzur neighborhood in the afternoon on Aug. 23 when a unit from the Ankara Police Department Organized Crime Control Bureau came under fire. 

An investigation by officers of the Financial Police has led to the detention of 11 people for allegedly issuing bogus prescriptions and illegally trading in medicines in the broader area of Karditsa, central Greece, police said on Thursday.

The 11 suspects have been linked to seven pharmacies in the area.

Police investigating the murder of two men whose bodies were found dumped on Monday night in a ravine on the outskirts of Kalamata in the Peloponnese said on Wednesday that they had detained several suspects in connection with the killings which are believed to have been a settling of accounts.

Police in Ferguson, Missouri, braced for another night of racially charged unrest on Aug. 19 as the governor and U.S. attorney general appealed for calm in the St. Louis suburb 10 days after the fatal shooting of black teenager Michael Brown.