Ministry plans to recruit Roma as special police guards

[Intime News]

The Citizen Protection Ministry is preparing to enlistee 100 members of the Roma assemblage arsenic special constabulary guards to patrol Roma settlements, Ta Nea regular has reported.

The initiative, expected to beryllium completed by the extremity of the year, aims to amended operational readying and strengthen constabulary quality connected gangs successful western Attica and different areas with important Roma populations.

A ministry authoritative told the paper the attack “will pb to a amended understanding of the choices and processes within the Roma assemblage that pb to illegality, arsenic well arsenic the household structure of definite gangs.”

According to the report, applicants indispensable person completed precocious schoolhouse and beryllium fluent successful the Romani language. Police officials did not regularisation retired the anticipation that some of the caller special guards could run undercover.

The special guards will service successful Athens, Thessaloniki and different regions with ample Roma communities, such arsenic Ilia successful the western Peloponnese.

Earlier this week, Citizen Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis announced plans to deploy specially trained constabulary officers wrong Roma settlements crossed the state but helium did not specify that they would beryllium recruited from the Roma community.

In 2019, the authorities stated that the fig of Greek Roma citizens successful Greece is astir 110,000, but different estimates accidental the fig could beryllium three times that.