Paphos Life

The number of police officers in the EU has slowly been decreasing in recent years. The EU had a total of 1.6 million police officers in 2016, a reduction of 3.4 % since 2009.

Overall, there were 318 police officers per 100 000 people in the EU in 2016, or one police officer per 314 people.

However, there are big differences between Member States: Hungary (90 police officers per 100 000 people in 2015), Finland (137), Denmark (186 in 2015) and Sweden (203) had the lowest rates, and Cyprus (573), Malta (505), Greece (492) and Croatia (490 in 2015) the highest.

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It would be interesting as to where the Cypriot Police Officers are and what they are doing?

Police question comparisons based on Eurostat figures

Police say Eurostat figures showing Cyprus has the highest number of police officers per capita in the European Union give an incomplete picture as they include personnel which in other countries is assigned to other units.

The police announcement followed publication of Eurostat figures which showed that Cyprus has the highest number of police officers as a proportion of the population with 573 per 100,000 people.

Comparisons with other EU states are ‘questionable’, they said because Cyprus’ figures include units and services which... [Read More]

Cheers

Steve

It was only a few days ago that the government announced that the fire service would no longer be a part of the police.