Filenews 26 August 2025
With a publication on the "X" platform, the police branch of the "EQUALITY" guild comments on the difficulties encountered by the police officers of the front line, recording seven incidents within a five-day period during which members of the Police Force were attacked.
The initial comment was made last Thursday, while the administrator of the "EQUALITY" account was adding day after day these seven incidents (today the last one) to reinforce the positions previously expressed by the guild.
We list the incidents through web publications:
>> He hit a police officer with a stolen motorcycle and then collided with a patrol car – The 24-year-old was arrested for 10 offences (20/8, incident on the hill "View" in Lakatamia, with the policeman injured in the wrist).
>> 148 police officers reported attacks against them in 2024 (an image from a CyBC report with statistics from previous years is cited).
>> He kicked a female police officer in the face while she was on the stretcher (22/8, the policewoman will undergo surgery after the blow she received in the eye from a 33-year-old man of African origin).
>> The 28-year-old man who was arrested for drugs in Larnaca attacked and injured a police officer (23/8, police officers were slightly injured in the leg during the search of the home of a suspicious person who was in possession of quantities of cocaine and cannabis, as well as ecstasy pills).
>> A drunk driver hit a police officer and escaped with his breathalyzer device (23/8).
>> Scenes taken from an action film in Limassol – Shooting of a police officer in a car (24/8, chase of a car that tried to hit police officers who were moving on foot and shots fired by a police officer on the left wheel of the vehicle),
>> They made a remark to him about the music, he beat a police officer (25/8, incident in Aradippou).
In detail, the comment that accompanies the "thread" on the account of the police branch of the "EQUALITY" guild:
"The lack of staff on the Front Line, overtime duties and the increase in crime, have brought us to daily injuries.
Of course, we have forgotten what some "well-wishers" say that it is not our job, so we have to die in the First Line!!
Just as we forget as the Police that these press releases do not come out, as they should be published to the outside often.
If it was an administrative investigation or a dismissal against a colleague, it would "come out" before it was even decided! And in order not to be misunderstood, we have nothing to hide and neither do we want to.
We are all Police Officers in a Police.
And we are proud wherever we work..."
