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The Interior Ministry is presenting a grand plan to strengthen the municipal police.
The issue of the Municipal Police was mentioned by the Minister of the Interior Takis Theodorikakos, during a teleconference organized by ND’s Secretariat for Local Government and Crisis Management. Mr. Theodorikakos, before the members of the Executive Secretariat, the Secretaries and the executives of the Local Government of ND, initially argued that the restoration of the Municipal Police, where it has been abolished, and its strengthening in the municipalities that have remained is among The priorities. .
For this reason, explained Takis Theodorikakos, the “capital” of the Municipal Police is among the proposals presented by the ministry to the Recovery Fund. According to the direction of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the money claimed for this purpose by Recovery Fund will be channeled to create adequate training infrastructure of the municipal police.
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The Interior Minister acknowledged that during the quarantine days, the Municipal Police institution contributed decisively to ensuring compliance with the measures, in order to limit the spread of COVID-19.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in fact, to facilitate this effort, in consultation with the Municipalities, has favored the possibility – in the current phase of the health crisis – of using administrative personnel for some responsibilities of the Municipal Police, so that the Municipal Police itself are more free to carry out their audit work.
Papastergiou in iefimerida: Municipal Police and in the smallest and insular municipality
THE Dimitris Papastergiou, President of KEDE and Mayor of Trikala, supported, speaking with iefimerida.gr, that “today only 100 of the 332 municipalities in the country have municipal police. Nouns 232 municipalities do not have municipal police. The example of Kalamaria, with 100,000 inhabitants, which does not have this service, is indicative ”.
As the president of KEDE explains, “when the municipal police were re-established, very few people asked to return to the organizations. “Some mayors, then, seeing that they have, for example, only 4 people at their disposal, said that it is not possible for the municipal police to” run “with so few personnel.”
The plan of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, emphasizes Mr. Papastergiou, “goes in a positive direction. We too had pressed, but we have the same position in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It is impossible that there is a municipality, even the smallest and the most insular, without municipal police. You cannot impose policies, control your municipality without this service. ”
No hires could be made until today
Until today, recruitments in the municipal police had been “frozen” and it is estimated that with the new plan, through the Recovery Fund, this process will be unblocked. “The creation of training centers is very important. In the past, after recruitment, the municipal police went to Kozani for a 7-month training, then for an internship in the Hellenic Police, and then to us in the municipalities, ”says Dimitris Papastergiou.
“In recent years, however, this school has constantly closed cannot be designated young municipal policemen. It is essential to include both the form of training and the hiring procedures in the new plan ”, concludes in iefimerida.gr the president of KEDE and mayor of Trikala Dimitris Papastergiou.
Theodorikakou teleconference
According to information, the digital meeting of Mr. Theodorikakos with the officials of the local government of ND, lasted about two hours and took place in an extremely good environment, with the officials of the local government evaluating with a positive signal the work of the direction of the Ministry of the Indoor in 17 months. The Kyriakos Mitsotakis government is in command of the country.
Participants included ND Political Committee Secretary George Stergiou, ND Deputy South Sector and Local Government Sector Secretary Dionysis Hatzidakis, ND General Manager Giannis Bratakos, and Central Union President of Municipalities of Greece. Papastergiou.
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