Posts tagged with "Police"

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

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

January 15th, 2019 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, 2019 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, 2018 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, 2018 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, 2018 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, 2018 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, 2018 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, 2018 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, 2018 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, 2018 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, 2018 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, 2018 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, 2018 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, 2018 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, 2018 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, 2018 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, 2018 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, 2018 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...
Tribute after tribute after tribute Entertainment

Tribute after tribute after tribute

June 30th, 2018 Next week will all be about tribute bands. From the rocking sounds of the Frontline Band paying tribute to Pink Floyd to a more Motown kind of sound with a tribute to Dianna Ross and the Supremes, to the British rock sound of the 70s with a tribute to The Police, the music nostalgia of the good old days will be sung out in spades. The...
Police seize items in counterfeit case Cyprus

Police seize items in counterfeit case

June 28th, 2018   After a two-day investigation police on Thursday announced they had found passports, mobile phones and other items in the Paphos flat rented by a 36-year-old man who was arrested in Germany earlier in the week. Police officers seized 10 passports from various countries, 71 mobile phones, a computer, bronze plates, a number...
Police to increase road safety measures and presence Cyprus

Police to increase road safety measures and presence

June 26th, 2018 Police said on Tuesday they would increase road safety measures following an increase in the amount of fatal and serious traffic accidents. Authorities agreed at meeting with Police Chief Zacharias Chrysostomou to increase the number of traffic police, by moving 50 officers from other departments in addition to 50 police cadets who...
100 new graduates from police academy Cyprus

100 new graduates from police academy

June 21st, 2018 President Nicos Anastasiades on Thursday wished all the best to the 100 police cadets of the class of 2017, during a graduation ceremony in Nicosia. In his keynote address, Anastasiades congratulated the 100 new members of the police, but said their sense of pride should be coupled with a sense of responsibility to uphold the law and...
Police brief Disy on underworld crackdown Crime

Police brief Disy on underworld crackdown

June 13th, 2018 Ruling Disy leader Averof Neophytou and a delegation from the party on Wednesday visited police headquarters in Nicosia, receiving a briefing on the police force’s recent clampdown on organised crime from chief Zacharias Chrysostomou. "I have informed the president and the delegation about the strategic objectives and priorities of...
Police auction lost and stolen items Cyprus

Police auction lost and stolen items

June 8th, 2018 Stolen and lost laptops, sunglasses and mobile phones were among dozens of items auctioned off by police in Famagusta this week, it was reported on Friday. According to CNA, Famagusta police spokesman Andreas Constantinou said the loot also included men's watches, items of jewellery, bicycles, mopeds and diving equipment. "The...
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