Crime and everyday life
“Just as my life goes in circles, so do the police. Every time I go to the Ministry of Citizen Protection there is a difficult situation that we have to deal with. But every time there is a different crime” Mr. Chrysochoidis said initially and added: “There is no increase in crime. From 2019 onwards there is a decrease. Homicides are 25% less. There is an increase in delinquency overall, generally in society and this creates a sense of impunity. Serious crime has gone down.”
Afterwards, Mr. Chrysochoidis referred to the Greek Police, stressing that in terms of forces and means “in general, they exist, I would say, sufficiently. What is missing, especially in Attica, is the staff. In the province where crime is less we have sufficiency. We have to see how we will bring this asymmetry to a good level. Do you remember, the prime minister had said, when I was not in the ministry, that around 2,500 police officers would be returned from guarding dignitaries to combat services. This is not easy. The police in our country do a lot of things. Police officers are employed in many different things that they should not normally be doing. Already, however, 200 police officers went to the Athens Traffic Police and 450 to DIAS”.
Then the Minister of Citizen Protection also referred to Western Attica. “The logic of the avato will cease in areas such as Menidi, Aspropyrgos, Megara, Zefyri. This will end. The police presence is more intense. We must see all this, however, as a social problem. A comprehensive management of this problem is needed. It’s a social issue and then it becomes a criminal phenomenon because some people think there is impunity.”
Domestic violence and violence once morest minors
In his interview with Niki Lymberakis, Mr. Michalis Chrysochoidis referred to the issue of violence once morest minors as well as the issue of domestic violence. “The problem of juvenile violence is fundamentally social. The police collect the results. Violence has always existed. And we, as children, played with wood. The differences with now are two. The first is that now the violence is organized. There are gangs. The second is that the violence today is intense. There are knives and axes in fights. We as the police have already put soft policing in youth hangouts, with young police officers, mostly girls, but also 2-3 people in civilian clothes so that if something happens there will be an intervention of experienced police officers.
» At the same time, in approximately 20 days, 24-hour support telephone lines for children and parents will operate in Athens and Thessaloniki. In addition, there will be a “panic button”, i.e. a mobile application, in order to report incidents there. The “panic button” will be open to those who request it, both children and parents. I hope that in two months it will be ready” said Mr. Chrysochoidis and then referred to the phenomenon of domestic violence:
“In regarding two months from now, 45 offices will be ready staffed by trained police officers which will be added to the existing ones and thus we will reach a total of 63. It is a case that is going well. The police must understand that when they receive such a complaint they can save a life. It is enough to train the Greek Police above. Investigations are carried out for every case of domestic violence where the police did not work properly, as in the case of Salamina. The measures we are taking are very strict. We are resuming the publication of the course of all the EDEs that are carried out once morest police officers so that the citizen knows where they are, how long they last and what their result is.”
University Police
Then the Minister of Citizen Protection also reported to the University Police. “Let’s start from the beginning. The University Police Act provided that some things would be done in universities in terms of infrastructure on the issue of safety, on the issue of fire safety, that no university has a fire safety plan, and there are thousands of children there every day, it would be the controlled way entrance (turnstiles and cards). There are no evacuation plans either! I don’t know why all this didn’t happen. The basic things have not been done. Those concerning the children’s lives have not been done,” said Mr. Chrysochoidis and added:
“There is the University Police. It was not abolished. The police officers are at the local police stations. He didn’t have to do anything, but even if there were, for example, in the episodes of Agriculture last Saturday, he wouldn’t have been able to intervene. They are unarmed people. It is a soft police force. They are for order and not to fight crime. University Police patrols around the universities. The University Police are not useful to deal with incidents like the one in Agriculture. We needed a Corps to exercise mild policing but incidents of violence it cannot handle.”
Indare case
Niki Lymperaki also asked Mr. Chrysochoidis regarding the Indare case in Koukaki (with the police raiding the house of the particular family during the incidents) who were arrested but acquitted in the courts. “The people were acquitted, but the police were also acquitted of the use of violence. If they had been convicted, I would have said that a mistake was made. But over here this case, which took on such a large dimension, was a bad operation, undermined from the beginning by the policemen who organized it. It was an unfortunate enterprise. It shouldn’t have been. I don’t want to get to the point. It was an operation that was unfortunate from start to finish because, I repeat, it was undermined by the very people who organized it. The policemen!
Finally, the Minister of Citizen Protection also referred to the recent bombings: “Never say that a matter that has historical references is closed. Needs attention. Indeed, Greece was freed from a 27-year post-political adventure and a phenomenon that created problems in the country was eradicated. Then some others appeared and they all ended up in prison. Last action was in 2018 at SKAI. Now attempts are being made to revive the phenomenon. Perhaps because some have now been able to be operationally ready to appear, they may feel that they can now act fearlessly, have this delusion. The question is one: The arrest, the referral to Justice and the trial. In the end they all end up in jail. Everything is possible. And an escalation. That’s why serious work and penetration is needed,” said Mr. Chrysochoidis and at the end he also referred to the dismantling of 17N:
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