#Cyprus police

It defies belief that the law which would make it mandatory for police to record the questioning and taking of statements from suspects and witnesses in criminal cases, has been ...

There will be a total of 90 fixed traffic cameras on roads across the island, the police said on Sunday. The cameras will be in operation in a total of 30 locations. ...

The batch of measures announced last week by the police to tackle organised crime and football violence either don’t go far enough or will fall flat, an ex-cop tells ...

Culture of silence over rape, harassment and domestic violence by police officers MPs are sounding the alarm over what they describe is a boy’s club in the police force ...

A man was arrested for drug possession on Tuesday, following a police chase from Dali to Tseri, authorities said. According to police, at around 9am on Tuesday morning, the police ...

Justice Minister Anna Procopiou announced plans to prepare a national strategy for the protection and safeguarding of members of the LGBT community on Friday. Procopiou was speaking at an event ...

A 63-year-old man is wanted by police in Paphos after allegedly swindling two people out of a combined total of €11,500. According to the Paphos police’s deputy chief of operations ...

Two more migrant boats were found by Cyprus’ port police in the Cape Greco area, with hundreds of people on board, police said on Sunday. The first boat was discovered ...

A report released by the Audit Office on Thursday highlighted that a total of 164 traffic violations recorded by traffic cameras installed on Cyprus’ roads concern police vehicles. According to the ...

Two explosions occurred in Nicosia on Thursday in the early morning hours outside café/bars, police said. The first explosion happened outside a café/bar in the centre of Nicosia ...

Police chief Stelios Papatheodorou revealed on Tuesday that nine convictions and the identification of 40 exploitation victims were recorded in Cyprus last year in relation to human trafficking and workplace exploitation. ...

The Cyprus’ police force is undergoing changes so it stands by the public, rather than against them, as efforts are underway to help the public trust officers more, Justice Minister ...

In total 14 third country nationals who were illegally in Cyprus returned to their countries as part of a joint Frontex forced returned operation by charted flights, police said on Wednesday. ...

A 36-year-old man in Paphos is in the intensive care unit at Paphos general, after being stabbed by a 61-year-old man, police said on Friday. Police said that the victim, ...

The lane of the Nicosia-Limassol motorway that was shut down on Thursday causing massive disruption, after a truck collided into another causing it to overturn, was opened to traffic at ...

Thirteen state-of-the-art, environmentally-friendly motorbikes were delivered on Wednesday to the Paphos municipality for its traffic department. Mayor Phedonas Phedonos said that after 12 years, the traffic department was upgrading its fleet ...

Measures to further strengthen the operational capacity of the police were announced on Tuesday evening by the government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis, after the meeting held by President Nikos Christodoulides with ...

The police and the fire brigade signed a memorandum of cooperation on Thursday regarding training of new recruits. The signing of the memorandum took place at a ceremony attended by ...

Police “should not hide” while carrying out speed checks, according to spokesman Christos Andreou. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency (CNA) on Thursday, he said “the instructions are clear. They ...

Three delivery drivers were attacked in Limassol overnight, police said on Sunday, following a wave of racist violence two days ago that left migrant businesses in ruins, people injured, and ...

Police in Paphos arrested a 27-year-old man on Thursday evening in relation to an investigation into an alleged kidnapping which reportedly took place during the troubles seen in Chlorakas earlier ...

Two men “attacked and beat” police in Larnaca while being arrested in connection with multiple burglaries on Thursday evening. The pair attempted to escape and police fired warning shots, before ...

The scene in Chlorakas, as well as in the neighbouring villages of Emba and Tremithousa, is calm, according to the police. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency (CNA), police press ...

Police said they used chemical agents to disperse a group of residents of an apartment complex in Chlorakas protesting an electricity cut amidst extremely high temperatures. Around 100 people who have ...