A tense backdrop accompanies his leadership’s manipulations GREEK POLICE. take the place of his head Mykonos Security Sub-Directoryespecially after it became known beating of archaeologist Manolis Psarrow early March.

After weeks of negotiations, it was finally decided yesterday that Deputy Police Director Nikos Bogatinis will be appointed to the responsible post of head of Mykonos security.

He served for several years at AT Tumpas Triandrias in Thessaloniki, with information that he had expressed interest in being stationed on the island. He is described by his colleagues as an incorruptible officer, while the new leader of EL.AS, Lazaros Mavropoulos, originally from Northern Greece, is believed to have a personal opinion of him.

However, an earlier attempt was made to send another officer to this position, who holds the rank of police officer B and has worked as a police station commander in the Cyclades (including outside Mykonos) for more than ten years.

The order for its deployment was issued on March 21 marked “urgent” and signed by the head of the Cyclades Police Department. The deployment was supposed to start on 23 March, however the move never came to fruition, with some reports suggesting it was canceled due to backlash from Mykonos operatives.

Complaints and suspicions

The tenure of a particular officer as commander of the police station of the Cyclades was not only uneventful. Informed sources “K” It is reported that representatives of the self-government of the island where he served, as well as deputies of the Cyclades region, asked the former Minister for the Protection of Citizens, Michalis Chrysochoidis, to move, expressing serious complaints about his actions.

The leadership of the Police chose Nikos Bogatini and canceled the planned secondment of an officer whose management is under control.

Suspicions against him were strengthened by an internal investigation, which had been conducted since the beginning of the year in A.T. where he served. It was launched following a report compiled in late February by a lance constable who found that from 2013 until recently, hundreds of gun licenses had been issued without the required paperwork.

It follows from the contents of the report that problems and shortcomings were found in more or less 224 files. In some cases, for example, medical reports are missing, while in other cases it was found that the necessary supporting documents were missing in the cases. There are also cases where psychiatrists believed that “the applicant’s condition did not make him capable of using a shotgun”, and yet A.T. proceeded to issue a license.

Although the actions of a particular police service are subject to an internal disciplinary review, the officer who led it for more than a decade was selected on 23 March to be assigned to Mykonos and temporarily appointed to the post of commander of the Security Service. However, his transfer to the Island of the Winds did not take place, since the information did not explain this event by the decision of the administration, but by the reaction caused by the news of the transfer of the officer to the island.