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The Military Police (Greek: Στρατονομία), is the military police of the Hellenic Army. It was formerly known as the Greek Military Police ( Greek : Ελληνική Στρατιωτική Αστυνομία ), and by the acronym ESA ( Greek : ΕΣΑ ), between 1951 and 1976. [ 1 ]
Attica General Police Directorate (GADA). The Hellenic Police force [3] [4] is headed in a de jure sense by the Minister for Citizen Protection (in a similar way that many US Police Departments give an elected civilian the role of Commissioner), and although the Minister sets the general policy direction of Greece's stance towards law and order as a whole, the Chief of Police is the day-to-day ...
The air force was later introduced in September 1912 as the third arm of the military. Throughout the Balkan Wars of 1912/1913, the Greek armed forces achieved significant victories against the Ottoman and Bulgarian armies, effectively expanding Greece's territorial boundaries.
As a result, after 1946 the police forces ceased to be a formal part of the Defence Ministry, although they retained several military features and were organized along military lines. Reflecting a new emphasis on civilian policing, in 1984 both the Gendarmerie and the Cities Police were merged into a single unified Hellenic Police. [1]
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One of the leaders of the Regime of the Colonels, head of the Greek Military Police (1967–73). De facto dictator from November 1973 until the junta's overthrow in August 1974, when he was forcibly retired. Tried and convicted of high treason to life imprisonment. Lieutenant General: Dimitrios Ioannou: 1861 1926
Greece’s armed forces declared three days of national mourning after five members of a military rescue team were killed in a road accident in flood-hit Libya. The bodies of the five — three ...
Modern Greek military ranks are based on Ancient Greek and Byzantine terminology. In the army and air force, these names are often based on the unit or post that a holder of each rank usual commands.