#Cyprus police

Police arrested seven people on Friday night for offences including illegal stay, drink driving and theft. Officers stopped and checked 699 drivers and 213 passengers. Traffic checks resulted in 330 charges for various ...

Attempts by the Cyprus police to have legislation that would allow telecommunication interception date back to the last century. The Clerides government had also drafted legislation that would allow wiretapping ...

Cyprus police chief Themistos Arnaoutis on Friday presented a new modernisation programme aimed at transforming the force into a more efficient, technologically advanced and responsive organisation by 2030. The programme, titled ‘...

Five people were arrested overnight during the police’s regular overnight operations, the force said on Friday. Officers stopped and checked 282 drivers and 68 passengers, while also inspecting 43 premises, resulting in ...

Police on Thursday placed under arrest a 30-year-old man in connection with the firing of a shot in the centre of Paphos. The suspect, escorted by an attorney, reportedly turned ...

Hosting Maccabi Tel Aviv’s Euroleague home games in Limassol will require some 500 police officers, according to the president of Isostita’s (Equality) police union branch, Nikos Loizides. Speaking to ...

Five people were arrested for various offences in targeted police operations across the island on Wednesday night. According to the police, a total of 587 vehicles were stopped for inspection and 800 ...

Police said a communications law is essential as they the presented the new Directorate for Combatting Organised Crime, which police chief Themistos Arnaoutis said will officially begin operating on Monday, ...

Police arrested five people during islandwide checks on Tuesday night, carried out through organised patrols at key locations in urban areas. According to a police statement, the arrests concerned offences ...

A life sentence was handed down on Tuesday to the man convicted of killing 22-year-old Bangladeshi national Shahruar Ahmed Emon in June, with the man having been convicted of premeditated ...

A 23-year-old man was arrested on Monday in connection with an online fraud case involving €34,600 taken from a Limassol woman’s bank account, police said on Tuesday. The case opened ...

Two people allegedly involved in the assault of a delivery man on Spyros Kyprianou Avenue in Limassol last Friday have been identified, police spokesman Vyron Vyronos said on Tuesday. Speaking ...

An 18-year-old man was arrested in Paphos after a cat was found shot dead, police said on Tuesday. Later on Tuesday, the Paphos district court issued a four-day remand order. ...

Two people were arrested in Nicosia after police found more than one kilogramme of cannabis during searches of a vehicle and home, authorities said on Tuesday. A 27-year-old man was ...

Four people were arrested for offences including burglary, theft, illegal entry and malicious damage during targeted police operations across Cyprus overnight, police said on Tuesday. A total of 605 vehicles were ...

Two road collisions occurred at the same spot in Nicosia within three and a half hours on Sunday, with both drivers testing over the legal alcohol limit, police said on ...

Ninety-nine fines were issued to riders for failing to wear protective helmets during an islandwide traffic enforcement campaign on Sunday. The police said on Monday that the operation targeted riders ...

Three individuals aged 20, 22 and 28 were arrested on Sunday in Limassol in connection with the bomb placed outside a shop on Wednesday. They were taken before the Limassol district court, which ...

A pistol was found on Sunday afternoon in the Nicosia district, hidden inside a wooden electricity switch box. Following information received, the police inspected the electricity box, located on the ...

Nineteen people were arrested for various offences, such as illegal possession of drugs and drink driving, while 312 were reported for traffic offences during overnight police operations. The police pulled over 532 ...

Six people were arrested for various offenses including illegal stay in the territory of the Republic and the illegal possession of property during police operations in urban areas across the ...

The right lane of the Nicosia-Limassol highway in Kornos area, which closed after a car crash, was reopened to traffic shortly before noon on Friday. Police said the vehicle involved ...

A total of 34 complaints were filed since Thursday in the framework of a campaign targeting the use of personal mobility devices in prohibited areas, Famagusta traffic police said on Friday. ...

Four people were arrested during overnight police operations across Cyprus, including three for the illegal possession of tobacco products, police said on Friday. Officers stopped and checked 529 drivers and 175 passengers, ...