The control of the delinquency of Roma It is one of the priorities of the government for this reason the Ministry of Citizen Protection is planning special recruitments policeman.
To deal with the problem, ELAS has decided to hire 100 Roma police officers in camps to limit the phenomena of delinquency in West Attica, as well as in other parts of Greece.
The procedure, according to the newspaper TA NEA, is expected to be completed within the end of the year and aims at the best business planningbut also the creation of information networks by the security authorities to deal with gangs in the western suburbs of Attica, but also where there is a romance density, as this community is considered to have a large share of thefts in burglaries and fraud.
In the last 24 hours it was decided to hire as Special Roma Guards With the necessary prerequisite for the high school and they are aware of the Romance Linguistic Private.
ELAS executives do not exclude Some of them to function in covert as secret police officers.
The point is, of course, to respond to the citizens belonging to the Roma ranks, and the questioning is the response they will have from the community.
According to the plan, these Special Guards will serve in Athens, Thessaloniki and other areas (such as Ilia) where there are large Roma communities. If the venture is successfully crowned, no more hires are excluded.
The issue was reported on Monday (22.09.2025) Michalis Chrysochoidis, Saying that … “these police officers (who will be found in the Roma camps) will be combat, will be in the camps and will have a seat there. In 1.5 months this will be done and will be subject to the Greek FBI. They will be present daily, patrolling neighborhoods and neighborhoods. The message is that there is nowhere to avoid the law. This tolerance that has existed for years and which for me is incomprehensible, it must end. “
He explained that: “The big problem with crime is in Attica and is going down. There are two fields: one is the organized crime, the heavy crime that has been hit by the Greek fbI. We have 1400 arrests and 500 in custody in 6 months. There is also the little crime that affects the neighborhoods and there we have a serious problem with the Roma. In addition to drugs, there are thefts and robberies, this is coming down. “