Rebuilding her body Municipal Police, which is planned to return to all municipalities with expanded powers, is detailed in the draft law, which will be negotiated until November 18, and is entitled “Municipal police, people’s market authorities, simplification of procedures between PTA and decentralized administrations, and other Regulations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.” It is expected that after the passage of the bill, at the latest in early December, a separate announcement will be issued outside ASEP for a total of 1214 people who will work in the municipal police. However, it is noted that 214 vacancies have already been distributed through the hiring planning process to municipalities that have applied, including Athens as well as Chania. For the remaining 1,000 positions, requests are expected to be submitted by the municipalities once the bill is passed. OUR Municipality of Thessaloniki, according to Mayor Konstantinos Zervas, plans to request a recruitment of 100 people, as the municipal police force of the city currently has 74 people. However, in order for a municipality to hire people for municipal police positions, it must also allocate appropriate funds in its budget.

Training and responsibilities

The bill details the scoring process and the institutional framework for the operation of the new body, which will be unified in rank and hierarchy. EL.AS will train the new body and assist it in fulfilling its duties, while the municipal police, in order to fulfill their mission, in the exercise of their powers, can make arrests, and in relation to specific offenses, can perform the duties of an investigator. Each inspector is obliged to provide the requested data to the municipal police. However, regarding the possibility of arrest, Interior Ministry sources say that the legislation provides that the way in which the municipal police carry out their duties depends on the municipal authorities of each municipality.

The duties of the municipal police under the bill are supposed to be expanded, they are divided into three categories, and each of them can be carried out depending on the size of the municipality.

Indicatively, the first category of responsibilities includes compliance with regulations regarding controlled parking, compliance with directives regarding civil protection, abandoned vehicles, operation of playgrounds, authentication of signatures for people with disabilities, etc. .a.

In the second category, the municipal police also enforce regulations regarding outdoor advertising, pets, outdoor sales and street markets.

In the third category, the municipal police check compliance with regulations regarding store licensing, noise pollution, opening hours, and compliance with the anti-smoking law.

Employment conditions

Candidates for Special Personnel positions in municipal police uniform must meet the following conditions: be over 21 years of age and not exceed, for municipal police departments PE and TE, their age of 35 and for municipal police department DE. , at the age of 28 years. They must also be taller than 1.63m for women and 1.70m for men. Those who retire before the age of 10 will be required to pay compensation for the months of their training, which includes a theoretical and practical training program of at least six months and is provided by EL.AS.