#Cyprus police

The body of a 42-year-old woman was found at her home in the Omonia area of Limassol on Saturday evening. According to the police’s statement issued on Sunday, a ...

There is something deeply troubling about the decision to allow Maccabi Tel Aviv to make Cyprus its home for its EuroLeague basketball matches this season. There is nothing inherently wrong ...

Three construction workers fell nine metres at a building site in Strovolos, leaving one in a critical condition, police said on Sunday. The men, aged 33, 45 and 49, were working on a ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday that the new directorate for combating organised crime, dubbed the ‘Cypriot FBI’, dramatically changes how the state will tackle serious crime. In a recorded ...

Two drivers were taken to hospital after a head-on collision on the Polis Chrysochous to Paphos Road near Tsada on Saturday night. The crash happened at about 11pm, when a ...

A 66-year-old driver was arrested after his car hit six pedestrians, among them two young children, in Argaka in Paphos district on Saturday evening. The collision happened shortly before 6.30pm, ...

Police arrested seven people on Friday night for offences including illegal stay, drink driving and theft. Officers stopped and checked 699 drivers and 213 passengers. Traffic checks resulted in 330 charges for various ...

Attempts by the Cyprus police to have legislation that would allow telecommunication interception date back to the last century. The Clerides government had also drafted legislation that would allow wiretapping ...

Cyprus police chief Themistos Arnaoutis on Friday presented a new modernisation programme aimed at transforming the force into a more efficient, technologically advanced and responsive organisation by 2030. The programme, titled ‘...

Five people were arrested overnight during the police’s regular overnight operations, the force said on Friday. Officers stopped and checked 282 drivers and 68 passengers, while also inspecting 43 premises, resulting in ...

Police on Thursday placed under arrest a 30-year-old man in connection with the firing of a shot in the centre of Paphos. The suspect, escorted by an attorney, reportedly turned ...

Hosting Maccabi Tel Aviv’s Euroleague home games in Limassol will require some 500 police officers, according to the president of Isostita’s (Equality) police union branch, Nikos Loizides. Speaking to ...

Five people were arrested for various offences in targeted police operations across the island on Wednesday night. According to the police, a total of 587 vehicles were stopped for inspection and 800 ...

Police said a communications law is essential as they the presented the new Directorate for Combatting Organised Crime, which police chief Themistos Arnaoutis said will officially begin operating on Monday, ...

Police arrested five people during islandwide checks on Tuesday night, carried out through organised patrols at key locations in urban areas. According to a police statement, the arrests concerned offences ...

A life sentence was handed down on Tuesday to the man convicted of killing 22-year-old Bangladeshi national Shahruar Ahmed Emon in June, with the man having been convicted of premeditated ...

A 23-year-old man was arrested on Monday in connection with an online fraud case involving €34,600 taken from a Limassol woman’s bank account, police said on Tuesday. The case opened ...

Two people allegedly involved in the assault of a delivery man on Spyros Kyprianou Avenue in Limassol last Friday have been identified, police spokesman Vyron Vyronos said on Tuesday. Speaking ...

An 18-year-old man was arrested in Paphos after a cat was found shot dead, police said on Tuesday. Later on Tuesday, the Paphos district court issued a four-day remand order. ...

Two people were arrested in Nicosia after police found more than one kilogramme of cannabis during searches of a vehicle and home, authorities said on Tuesday. A 27-year-old man was ...

Four people were arrested for offences including burglary, theft, illegal entry and malicious damage during targeted police operations across Cyprus overnight, police said on Tuesday. A total of 605 vehicles were ...

Two road collisions occurred at the same spot in Nicosia within three and a half hours on Sunday, with both drivers testing over the legal alcohol limit, police said on ...

Ninety-nine fines were issued to riders for failing to wear protective helmets during an islandwide traffic enforcement campaign on Sunday. The police said on Monday that the operation targeted riders ...

Three individuals aged 20, 22 and 28 were arrested on Sunday in Limassol in connection with the bomb placed outside a shop on Wednesday. They were taken before the Limassol district court, which ...