The Minister of Civil Protection, Michalis Chrysochoidis, speaking at the 16th Conference of ND and taking stock of his work, he said that security is becoming more and more widespread every day.

“And that is the difficult challenge that we have set. And I want to tell you something that I’ve noticed in the last few months through the measurements that we’re doing, the index of satisfaction with localpolicing is going up in cities, in rural areas, all over the country. This means that all the efforts made to consolidate safety are paying off,” he added.

“We have in 2025 a horizontal reduction of crime of 25%,” he said: “We put against the mafias, the criminal groups. We have turned against the brothers. We put against all those who thought that they could really attack the institutions, the economic order and competition in the country. And a team, a large team of 1,200 police officers is fighting every day and has so far dismantled 200 criminal groups.”

As for the alcohol tests being conducted and the success of the measure, he said that every weekend 55,000 alcohol tests are conducted across the country. “And there is something amazing that shows the value of politics. A year or so ago, the percentage over the limit during tests was 5-8%. Today the percentage of those over the legal limit is now 0.7-0.8%. Thousands of our citizens are not driving under the alcohol limit. Thousands of our fellow citizens are forming a new lifestyle. This is a success of the policy,” he pointed out.

Also, the Minister of Civil Protection said that through an effort made with the cooperation of several ministries, with the coordination of the presidency, violence in stadiums has been zeroed out.

“We had negated the invasions in universities. There is not a single occupation. We have minimized all those forms of conflict that existed within the universities. And what we saw the day before yesterday is nothing but some internal conflicts related to the elections,” he stressed.

“So this is the job we are doing, this is the mission to which the Hellenic Police personnel have dedicated themselves. And today it has really achieved unprecedented results, which, however, in order to maintain them, we need daily struggle, we need a plan and strategy, we need patience and perseverance and, above all, we need faith in the duty of the police officers, who carry out this great work,” he added.

“That is why the Government of the New Democracy, the Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, has announced a series of very important measures to support the income of police officers, established for the first time and a historic decision to recognize the dangerous nature of the police profession and finally I think for the first time in many years, perhaps after 20 plus years, there is such a generous boost to the incomes, but at the same time the recognition of police officers for such a difficult but important social profession to which they have dedicated themselves.”

.