With the sudden change of the head of the Greek police Government National Security Council (GNSC) at its extraordinary meeting.

By unanimous decision of KYSEA, Mr. Lieutenant General Lazaros Mavropoulos.

outgoing chief, Lieutenant General Konstantinos Skoumaswho is awarded the rank of retired general, is awarded the title of honorary chief of the Greek police.

According to KYSEA, the appointment of a new head of EL.AS. aims to improve and more positively and effectively implement the modern operational plans of the Greek police to ensure the safety of citizens.

According to the information, thoughts about replacing Konstantinos Skumas arose a few months ago in connection with a number of internal changes in the Greek police, including changes in the faces and heads of services.

However, since he had only been in charge of EL.AS for a few months, it was decided to delay his retirement by a few months.

In addition, the operational performance of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has recently been reflected in a series of demonstrations that took place in Athens and other cities in connection with the replacement of the head of a particular service for several years. However, people with knowledge of the matter report that the change in leadership of EL.AS is not related to the above concerns.

Biography of the new leader EL.AS.

Lieutenant General Lazaros Mavropoulos was born in 1963 in Granite Drama. In 1985 he entered the Hellenic Police School of Constables, in 1989 he entered the Hellenic Police School of Senior Constables, and in 1990 he entered the Hellenic Police Officers School, graduating in 1993. In 2006 he graduated with honors from the Faculty of Advanced Training of the Police Academy. He graduated from the Higher Interdisciplinary Military School (A.D.I.S.P.O.), as well as the National Security School with an “excellent” rating. In 2014, he attended the Police Officer Training School.

He has certificates of study at the Open University of Thessaloniki in the following subjects: “Administration and Economics”, “Medicine – Biology – Psychology – Drugs – AIDS”, “Basic Principles of Legal Sciences”, “Theology”, “Environment”. and Ecology” and “History – Archeology – Art”.

Successfully participated in a series of training seminars at the National Center for Public Administration on the legality of administrative actions, the administration of public services, human factors management, modern public administration (directions and perspectives), effective communication for open and transparent public administration and ex officio search for supporting documents in public administration.

He has attended various conferences to specialize in operational planning, business management and organization, crisis management, child abuse and animal cruelty. In addition, he received critical incident management training.

For a number of years he held positions of responsibility as the head of a number of police departments and sub-departments of the Prefecture of Thessaloniki, as well as director of the sub-department of police. International Exhibition in Thessaloniki, as well as Chairman of the Primary and Secondary Disciplinary Board of the Northern Greece of the Hellenic Police.

In January 2017, he was appointed with the rank of brigadier general as the director of the Thessaloniki Police Department, and in July 2019 he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general and was appointed director general of the Thessaloniki Police.

On March 31, 2022, he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general and was appointed to the post of chief of staff of the Greek Police Headquarters.

On January 25, 2023, he was appointed Deputy Chief of Police of Greece.

During his tenure, he was honored by the Greek state for his service with the awards “Commissar of the Order of Honor” and “Senior Commander of the Order of the Phoenix”. Awarded with medals “Police Merit 1st, 2nd and 3rd degree”, as well as memorable signs “Memorandum of Merit and Honor 1st after the corresponding Star, 2nd and 3rd degree”, “Evdokim Diokisiy 1 th and 2nd degree”, “Successful service of first class personnel” and a number of moral awards.

He is married and is the father of one child.