Safety

The Serbian government on Monday appointed Vladimir Rebic as the new police director.

Teh 49-year-old served as head of the Traffic Police Administration from June 2014 and was later also appointed acting police director.

An official European warrant has been issued for the arrest of 26-year old Svetoslav Stoykov. Bulgaria's Interior Ministry continues to look for him because of the incident in the metro in Berlin which caused outrage in Germany.

The union representing Attica's police officers on Thursday condemned what it said was an antiquated and essentially useless wireless communications system that left members of the Greek Police's (ELAS) DIAS motorcycle unit without support during an armed robbery and chase in a northern suburb of Athens on Wednesday.

There is no information that any of the four suspects in the attack on a woman in the Berlin metro has returned to Bulgaria, the head of the country's police has announced.

Earlier this week, German authorities argued that both the attacker and the other three people seen on CCTV footage as a woman is kicked in the back were Bulgarian nationals.

The four people seen on CCTV footage during a barbaric attack on a woman in the Berlin metro are Bulgarian nationals, German prosecutors say.

All the suspects are thought to be relatives, Germany's Focus Online quotes an investigator as saying.

Anti-terrorist police in Istanbul has identified two of the terrorists responsible for the twin bomb attack in the Turkish capital on December 10 which killed 44 people and wounded hundreds of others, reported Hurriyet newspaper, cited by Focus Agency.

Outgoing Defense Minister Nikolay Nenchev has expressed concern at "secret information" that Bulgaria services may have obtained by wiretapping his convesations.

He has accused the authorities responsible for "unfounded wiretapping of high-profile statesmen" of having adopted a "practice of a totalitarian past that has been denied by the Bulgarian society."

Inspections and fire drills were not carried out before a deadly fire at a girls' dormitory on Nov. 29 in the southern province of Adana's Aladağ district, according to wounded students who survived the fire disaster.  

A 47-year-old homeless man wielding a screwdriver broke into a car in New Ionia, Volos without taking anything from the vehicle, then turned himself in to the Magnisias police station at 03:00 Tuesday and told the on-duty police officers to arrest him.

Twenty-four irregular migrants were detained near the Village of Draganovtsi, in the area of Karnobat, Eastern Bulgaria, police say.

Three vehicles were shown the stop baton for police checks in the small hours of Thursday.

Law enforcement officers then spotted the migrants packed inside each of the vehicles.