Police want extra officers for EU presidency

POLICE chief Michalis Papageorgiou asked the government not to implement a freeze on 152 places in the force that were removed in 2011, in view of Cyprus taking over the EU presidency in July, according to state broadcaster CyBC yesterday.

Papageorgiou was informing MEPs on the preparations of the police for the EU presidency.

“I think on the part of the police if they have the full support of the state which is how it should be, there shouldn’t be any problem,” said MEP Eleni Theocharous.

The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.