Special units to patrol five Roma settlements in Attica

A new, specially trained constabulary corps, known arsenic the Safe Coexistence Teams, will σύντομα beryllium deployed successful 5 Roma settlements successful Attica identified arsenic transgression hotspots.

The unit will run successful Avliza, Agia Sotira, and the Kapota camp; Ano Liosia and Zefyri; Neoktista successful Aspropyrgos; Sofo and Nea Zoi successful Aspropyrgos; and Vlychos successful Megara.

The work will comprise 100 constabulary officers from the Directorate for Combating Organized Crime – often referred to arsenic the “Greek FBI” – including 30 experienced unit and 70 caller recruits.

The caller unit is expected to behaviour patrols successful the greeting and evening, organized into 5 groups of 5 to six officers each.

According to constabulary sources, the teams will absorption connected targeted operations based connected specific intelligence, alternatively than wide “sweeping” raids, and will cooperate intimately with existing units such arsenic the Crime Prevention and Suppression Teams (OPKE).