Pafos Live 7 March 2025
During searches carried out yesterday at the Central Prison, a refrigerator was found in a warehouse where items intended for convicts are kept, in which 14 mobile phones and 12 cables were found.
The found items were received as evidence, while during the investigation of the case a testimony emerged against three persons, who appear to have assisted in the transfer of the refrigerator inside the Central Prison.
They are men aged 63, 51 and 47 who were arrested on court warrants and detained for investigation purposes.
At the same time, the possible involvement in the case of convicts of the Central Prison is being investigated.
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Towards its end is a criminal investigation ordered by the Independent Authority for the Investigation of Allegations and Complaints against the Police, concerning a citizen's complaint against a police officer for pulling a service pistol.
The incident happened last August in the district of Paphos and nothing had been announced. According to the complaint submitted by a citizen to AADIPA, two members of the Police had stopped his course on a motorcycle because he was not wearing a helmet.
The police officer informed him that he would issue him out of court for the helmet. He reportedly reacted strongly and did not receive the out-of-court document, resulting in a momentary incident. Then the constable informed him that he was under arrest because of his reaction, tried to put handcuffs on him, he allegedly resisted resulting in an appeal.
Then the other police officer who was at the scene allegedly recovered his service weapon resulting in the citizen complying and ending the momentary incident. He even received the extrajudicial document.
After that, he filed a complaint with AADIPA for the fact that a constable recovered a gun against him. Initially, the Independent Authority decided and appointed as criminal investigator a lawyer from Pafos who began taking statements to investigate the citizen's complaint.
She subsequently withdrew from the case and the Authority appointed another person as a criminal investigator. According to "F" information, the investigation is ongoing and the question is whether the police officer had the right under the circumstances to retrieve his service weapon.
According to a police provision, members of the Police who carry out traffic police checks are prohibited from using their service weapons. The investigation will show whether the incident justified the constable to draw his service weapon to intimidate the citizen or not.
Under police regulations, the use of a service weapon is made when lives or property are in danger and there is no other way to protect them, or when the constable feels that he is in danger himself and is in self-defense.
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The Kition Police Station proceeded with the arrest of two young persons aged 17 and 16 under court arrest warrants.
According to the Police, the arrest of the two is related to the case of an attack on a foreign food distributor on February 27, 2025 in Kiti. The 28-year-old foreigner while riding his motorcycle on Gr. Afxentiou in Kiti stopped because the road was closed due to road works. At that point he was attacked by six unknown young persons who, after violently attacking him by throwing him to the ground, then stole his motorcycle and mobile phone and fled.
The delivery man had no external injuries but went to the hospital as a precaution where he was treated and dismissed.
Examinations were carried out at the scene where the motorcycle was found abandoned in an open plot about 500 meters from the scene.
The two youths were questioned and then charged in writing. They were released to be summoned later.
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The fire that broke out at dawn in a vehicle belonging to a 28-year-old, which was parked in an open area in the area of Vergina in Larnaca, is also due to malicious action. The fire also affected a second vehicle belonging to the 28-year-old's father's company.
A robbery case committed yesterday in Larnaca, with a 39-year-old woman as the victim, is being investigated by the Police.
According to the complainant's complaint, at around 7:20 in the afternoon, she had withdrawn money from an automatic cash register at a bank branch in Larnaca.
While she was in an open area and heading to her car, she was approached by an unknown man and after punching her in the abdomen, he managed to extort the amount of money and then fled in an unknown direction.
The Oroklini Police Station continues the examinations.
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