Posts tagged with "Police"

Woman spotted floating in sea off Timi is identified (Updated) Cyprus

Woman spotted floating in sea off Timi is identified (Updated)

April 16th, 20192544 The body of a woman was found floating in the sea in the Timi area of Paphos Tuesday morning. The woman was spotted by tourists some 180 metres from the coast. Police pulled the woman from the water and transported the body to Paphos general hospital where a post-mortem will be carried out to establish the exact cause of...
Police holding neighbourhood-watch presentation in Pyrgos on Monday Crime

Police holding neighbourhood-watch presentation in Pyrgos on Monday

April 7th, 20191088 Police are inviting residents of Pyrgos in Limassol to a presentation on its neighbourhood watch programme on Monday evening. The meeting is to take place at 7pm at the event hall in the community centre, a police announcement said. It will be chaired by the Deputy Police Chief Kypros Michaelides. “The neighbourhood watch...
Police ready to start using tasers Cyprus

Police ready to start using tasers

March 7th, 20191815 THE justice ministry has prepared legislation allowing the use of tasers by police to tackle violent individuals instead of using firearms. In a statement, the ministry said the tasers, which have been acquired by the authorities, will be used sparingly, as per the rules of engagement relating to firearms, and only by trained...
3,500 drivers stopped for speeding in a week Crime

3,500 drivers stopped for speeding in a week

February 18th, 20192734 Almost 3,500 drivers were caught speeding during a week-long police campaign carried out from last Monday until Sunday. A total of 3,453 were caught for driving too fast while in the past 24 hours alone five people were booked for driving at speeds well over the limit. Around 8.15pm on Sunday police stopped two drivers aged 21 and...
Baffling use of police emergency lights Opinion

Baffling use of police emergency lights

February 17th, 20193072 I am a retired police sergeant from Ireland, and I spend a lot of my time here in Cyprus. I am currently living in Oroklini but I previously lived in Dherynia in 2014 while I was serving here with the United Nations. I have noticed that police cars and ambulances always keep their blue lights flashing and I was told, that this is to...
Police taking part in readiness exercise Cyprus

Police taking part in readiness exercise

February 5th, 20191770 An exercise testing police readiness to deal with a kidnapping and hostage situation will take place on Thursday in Limassol. Limassol police and the rapid response unit will attend Apollon 2019 which will start at 9am at the Themistocleous sports centre. The exercise simulates an armed episode of kidnapping with hostages. These...
Social cost of substance abuse was over €60m in 2016 Cyprus

Social cost of substance abuse was over €60m in 2016

January 15th, 20191472 The total social cost of illegal substances for 2016 stood at 0.33 per cent of Cyprus’ GDP or €60 million, a study conducted by the Cyprus National Addictions Authority (Nacc) showed. The term social cost refers to the cost imposed on a society as a result of the phenomenon of illegal substance use. This includes treatment and...
Police launch first road safety campaign of the year on Monday Cyprus

Police launch first road safety campaign of the year on Monday

January 6th, 20192458 The police will launch their first road safety campaign of the year on Monday, focussing on speeding. Speeding is one of the main causes of traffic accidents around the world and in Cyprus is the third highest reason for causing fatalities on the road. The campaign will take place across the island with the aim of showing how much...
Police chief launches probe into alleged domestic-abuse cover-up Cyprus

Police chief launches probe into alleged domestic-abuse cover-up

December 29th, 20182434 POLICE Chief Zacharias Chrysostomou has launched a probe into alleged police misconduct after a domestic violence exposé in Politis newspaper implicated members of the force in covering up to protect an abusive husband. According to the newspaper on Friday, Maria, 29, a mother of two, was subject to systematic domestic abuse and...
Police presence on roads having impact, force says Crime

Police presence on roads having impact, force says

November 13th, 20182407 The implementation of road policing is showing significant results, police announced on Tuesday. “Road policing is a modern, international method of policing, which effectively contributes to the prevention of road traffic accidents and, more generally, to the fight against crime. The Cyprus police has been implementing road...
Reported missing since Wednesday Cyprus

Reported missing since Wednesday

October 27th, 20183824 POLICE are searching for the whereabouts of 48-year-old Apostolos Apostolides who was reported as missing from his home for four days. Apostolides was last seen at around 5pm on Wednesday when he left his home in the Nicosia district. He is 1.80 metres tall, of regular build, with a shaved head and a light beard. He was wearing...
Motorists booked for drink driving, speeding Cyprus

Motorists booked for drink driving, speeding

October 26th, 20181521 Two people were caught committing serious traffic offences in the Famagusta district on Thursday evening, police said. At 9.10pm, police officers booked a 23-year-old man who was driving at a speed of 174km/h on the Larnaca – Ayia Napa motorway, way over the legal maximum limit of 100km/h. A little later, at 10.20pm, a driver was...
Israeli police officers in Cyprus as part of exchange programme Cyprus

Israeli police officers in Cyprus as part of exchange programme

October 24th, 20181447 An Israeli police delegation is in Cyprus as part of an exchange programme between the two countries’ forces. A police Statement said the Israeli delegation is being informed on the way the island’s crime-fighting departments operated. The 10-member team is led by Major General Alon Levavi, head of the policing directorate in...
Man caught doing twice the motorway speed limit Cyprus

Man caught doing twice the motorway speed limit

October 19th, 20182383 A 36-year-old man was caught on Thursday night on the Limassol to Nicosia motorway driving at almost 200 kilometres per hour. Officers signalled the driver to stop near Skarinou but he apparently ignored them. He was doing 196km/h, almost 100km over the speed limit. He was eventually stopped near the Alambra industrial...
Denmark shuts links to Sweden, Germany in police hunt (Update 2) Europe

Denmark shuts links to Sweden, Germany in police hunt (Update 2)

September 28th, 20181177 Danish police said they briefly shut bridges and ferry links to Sweden and Germany on Friday as they hunted for a black Volvo and three people linked to a serious crime, that one newspaper reported was a kidnapping. Denmark's armed forces said they also took part in the operation, without going into further detail. Police said they...
Police arrest five for illegal entry Cyprus

Police arrest five for illegal entry

September 19th, 20181412 Larnaca police arrested five people for illegal entry into the island after a vehicle driven by a 40-year-old man was checked in the early morning hours of Wednesday. The car had been stopped a little after 2am and was later driven, along with its five passengers, to a police station. Further examinations revealed that the four men...
Enforcement is key to prevent underage drinking Cyprus

Enforcement is key to prevent underage drinking

September 18th, 20181726 By Elias Hazou ONLY a comprehensive approach to preventing minors from having access to alcohol will work, lawmakers said on Monday as they continued discussion of a bill that would raise the legal age for alcohol consumption from 17 to 18. The bill was tabled by Greens MP Charalambos Theopemptou. But legislators said laws...
Police fire shot during Limassol car chase Cyprus

Police fire shot during Limassol car chase

September 7th, 20183004 Police in Limassol fired a warning shot in a bid to stop two suspects in a stolen vehicle early on Friday morning. The vehicle had been spotted by a police patrol at 3.30am near the town’s old port. Officers saw that it had been reported stolen in June in Nicosia and tried to intercept it but its driver accelerated and tried to...
Former US policeman jailed for 15 years for black teen's murder Americas

Former US policeman jailed for 15 years for black teen's murder

August 30th, 20181359 A white former Texas policeman was jailed on Wednesday for 15 years over the deadly shooting of an unarmed black teenager in a Dallas suburb last year that fueled a national debate over possible racial bias in US policing. The same jury that convicted Roy Oliver, 38, of murder on Tuesday in the death of Jordan Edwards, 15,...
Police to step up patrols over the holiday period Cyprus

Police to step up patrols over the holiday period

August 10th, 20182752 By Kristian Chrysostomou Police have launched an island-wide campaign to warn the public about the possibility of increased burglaries over the August holiday, as well as issuing advice on road safety in the coming week when a lot of movement is expected. Burglaries and theft are much more likely to occur during the summer months,...
Man drives into wall of Russian consulate in Limassol Cyprus

Man drives into wall of Russian consulate in Limassol

August 7th, 20183808 Police in Limassol on Tuesday arrested a 45-year-old man who drove his car into the perimeter wall of the Russian consulate but were quick to rule out a terrorist act. The incident happened at around 1pm outside the consulate on Gladstone Street. He then entered the yard and smashed the glass of the office entrance. The man was...
Police now seeking more sophisticated speed-camera system   Cyprus

Police now seeking more sophisticated speed-camera system  

August 3rd, 20185283 By Kristian Chrysostomou Police have asked the transport ministry to install more sophisticated cameras which as well as recording speed, can also check for other crimes such as not wearing a seatbelt or talking to the phone while driving. This is likely to delay the installation of speed cameras as was planned by the transport...
Europol and Cyprus police pledge to strengthen cooperation Cyprus

Europol and Cyprus police pledge to strengthen cooperation

July 27th, 20182877 Information provided by Europol has helped Cyprus police investigations in 70 per cent of child pornography cases, Cyprus Chief of Police Zacharia Chrysostomou said on Friday during a meeting with Europol Director Catherine De Bolle. De Bolle and Chrysostomou met to discuss the current state of affairs, coincidentally after the...
Police crime unit moves into new headquarters Cyprus

Police crime unit moves into new headquarters

July 24th, 20181404 Justice Minister Ionas Nicolaou and police chief, Zacharias Chrysostomou, inaugurated on Tuesday the new offices of the Nicosia police crime investigation unit (CID). The new office space has all the conditions to allow CID officers perform their duties effectively, Nicolaou said. “We put particular emphasis on preventing and...
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