The main pillars of the Ministry of Citizen Protection for the Reform of the Police were presented by the responsible Minister, Michalis Chrysochoidis, at the first meeting of the relevant committees, which was admitted to the draft law entitled: Electronic surveillance of convicts, convicts and detainees on permission – regulation of prisoners in prison and other provisions. “

As Mr Chrysochoidis pointed out, this bill comes after 25 years – since the ELAS headquarters was formed – and there is now an indisputable need to update the entire institutional building of the Police in order to modernize the context and needs of Greek society and security.

“Since the Hellenic Police Headquarters was founded, in 2000, to date, the police have multiplied its responsibilities and its work, and at the same time multiplying the needs of Greek society and the country,” the minister said, and brought to the examples of the police. and the issues of domestic violence.

Having heard the criticism of the opposition parties, he emphasized that despite all the different views, what remains a common assumption is the need to modernize the institutions of the Greek Police, the need to upgrade education and a new educational policy.

The responsible minister made a special mention of arrangements for weapons, ammunition, explosives, explosive mechanisms, noting that a series of provisions are also required to prevent the phenomenon of violence, which is increasingly penetrating, not only in Greek society, but not only in Greek society. As an example, he cited the fact that many minors carry and use the knife, the knife, as a deadly organ “and so there is violence, robberies, threats, blackmail and eventually injuries to young children by other young children” as he said.

Mr. Chrysochoidis also referred to the establishment of the General Secretariat, “a very important structure for the protection of critical entities, the critical infrastructure of the country”, through which the relevant EU directive will be implemented. For these issues.

Finally, he referred to the regulations of the draft law on anti -criminal policy, detention facilities, the institution of electronic surveillance of convicts, convicts and prisoners who are on leave, which he said “there are many problems”.

“I believe that all these changes and reforms are also the main pillars of an attempt to reform the police and bring it to the 21st century,” said Chrysochoidis, stressing that a series of large -scale cases concerned with organized crime, Very important blows against organized crime in the country. “

In addition to codifying the legislation, the legislation includes provisions on the utilization of technology, which – as the Minister observed – is rapidly changing our behavior, changing crime rapidly, the way criminals operate, changing our society as a whole. Thus, “technology in our body, our services, especially in the fields of communications and networks, needs” to enter. ”

Finally, Mr. Chrysochoidis referred to the changes for the modernization of the Police, such as the new headquarters, the evolution of the branches to General Directorates, the creation of a new Directorate -General with the responsibility of strategic planning, organization, communication and extroversion, Crises, and the establishment of a Directorate of Social Police (that is, domestic violence, violence of minors, etc.) the Directorate of Internal Audit and Internal Audit, the Personal Data Protection Office, subject to the leader, the creation of a first aid and the creation of a first aid, Crimes’ delineation, the establishment of a police academy, the introduction of the institution of lifelong learning, with a focus on continuous education and retraining, the establishment of the General Secretariat for Critical Entities and the General Secretariat for Criminal Policy.

The opposition

Minority rapporteur, George Moulkiotis, stressed that this bill is a polynomial intervention, faithful to the principle of the government’s communication feasibility and comes to cover the proven failure for citizens’ security, it does not introduce anything new, and the new ones are noticeable. “The crime of this failure is the organized crime, but it sweeps. The failure of the government is also evident from the fact that the ministry voluntarily revises its own stance. Bills of the same ministry are repealed. Laws had been passed a few months ago on specific issues and not doing what is being done today, but only communicatively, because otherwise another substantial importance would be given to the bill and would not self -arrest, ”Mr Moulkiotis said.

PASOK-KINALL also argued that the Ministry of Citizen Protection is a Ministry of Citizen Recruitment and Customer Relations Service Center and expressed the question, because it is difficult for the government to free the Greek police problems and to create a bureaucrat For the training of staff, but at the same time to enjoy the confidence of the citizens.

“One would expect to see this restructuring of the Greek Police in the structure. A police who, with this bill, could stand up to its needs, give the necessary safety to the citizens of the country, and the police themselves to protect their own work environment, “said SYRIZA Specialist Costas Barkas. But only the comments submitted in the consultation to see, “will find that this bill has nothing to do with the title. A draft law, which is a legal text with no beginning, middle and end. Unfortunately, a bill under consultation, which received no opinion from the bodies, from the people to whom a series of comments are mentioned, ”he added.

Mr Barkas has argued that the dominant feature of the political leadership of the Ministry of Citizen Protection in recent years is the deficit in the decline in meaningful and effective citizen security policy.

Nikolaos Papanastasis from the KKE said that the draft law is a reactionary set of provisions in the direction of strengthening the repressive role of the Police and more generally the state -repressive mechanisms, incorporates the philosophy of the “White Bible” for security in the 21st century.

“Strengthening the repressive framework is a major choice of the European Union that is promoted at speed and is supported by the executive and judicial functioning of bourgeois states. In our country, the bourgeoisie and the government, with its spearheaded repressive mechanisms, are shielded and attempted to intimidate and terrorize the people. The aim is to tackle popular protests in the face of the economic crisis, leveling popular rights in the bazaars for the sovereign rights of our country, and its deeper involvement in imperialist wars with the wolves of NATO, the US and the EU.

“We are currently discussing a draft law that, although urgent for the operation of security forces and correctional shops, unfortunately does not respond to the real needs of society and bodies who are required to implement it. Instead of introducing substantial reforms to enhance public security, this public good we all want to have, the draft law is limited to codification and a single organization of scattered provisions, without any substantive incisions – and most importantly, without solving the problems that Basil Grammenos.

From the New Left, Nassos Iliopoulos pointed out that the bill promotes a model of administration based on extreme over -centralization. Addressing the ministerial seats, he said: “It seems that your central stress is to have a deeper political control in the Greek Police. Secondly, you are stable in the line of criminal populism, a line that does not perform. A thought that does not go through your head, but in no way understand – or you probably understand, but you do not care that what you do in terms of real crime is completely ineffective. “

Aspasia Kouroupakis on behalf of the Niki party pointed out that the explanatory memorandum of the bill contains general declarations of bureaucracy, the optimal coordination of services, the highest quality services to citizens, while the bill itself is unanimously resolved. “And while we are lost in detail we do not see the major. How many police officers will be transferred from the offices to the field? Which bureaucratic structures are abolished? ” Mrs Kouroupakis asked. Her conclusion was that in essence, with the new structure we see a shuffle of the deck, with the same worn leaves. For example, he said that the new structure of the Greek Police does not provide answers to the hybrid threats that have arisen due to illegal immigration and open border policy for the Islamic cores that will be activated at all times in the event of a confrontation with Turkey.

Eleni Karageorgopoulou’s special dealer, Eleni Karageorgopoulou, made general observations on bad texts in the Greek Police, spoke of police violence, referred to the gynecopic and their treatment by ELAS, and in cases of domestic violence.

He also referred to the European Court of Human Rights, saying that he has condemned our country to police violence, based on two findings by the Ombudsman (an incident with three Roma) that ELAS. He posted the archive, freeing the police involved.