All 5 Bureaus are given orders and guidelines from the 5 Branches of the Hellenic Police HQ and coordinate the various Subdivisions, Departments, Offices, Units, Precincts and Stations which fall under the oversight of the Directorate.

There also operates at least one Precinct in said city which mainly acts as a community outreach for civilians to report police-related matters and have a direct contact with law enforcement officers.

These forces are also called in during emergencies and crises which regular police personnel cannot resolve like large manhunts for dangerous escaped criminals or missing persons.

[34] Officers of the Subdivision of Order Measures Enforcement bear regular police uniforms and gear and are usually a much tamer unit which is present in small rallies, sports games or gatherings where violent episodes and riots are not expected to break out.

Officers of the Subdivision of Public Order Reinstatement on the other hand bear a more militaristic, olive green uniform and gear which includes riot shields, helmets, tear gas, flash-bang grenades and oxygen masks.

These Departments help the local, rural Precincts keep the aforementioned major criminal activities under control by assisting in patrols as well as performing operations and arrests, similar to how Ο.Π.Κ.Ε.

[11] General Regional Police Directorates on the other hand, have offices of Intelligence Gathering and Management, of Internal Affairs and of Press, Communication and PR, all 3 of which report directly to their respective Divisions at HQ.

Officers of these ranks can also take on duties of watch commanders, platoon leaders and/or act as senior supervisors of task forces, units and operations.

Several foreign advisers (particularly from Bavaria, which emphasized elements of centralization and authoritarianism), were also brought in to provide training and tactical advice to the newly formed Police force.

The main task of the police force under the army as a whole during this period was firstly to combat theft but also to contribute to the establishment of a strong executive government.

It acquired its own educational and training facilities independent of those of the army (though still remaining titularly part of the armed forces), but due to its involvement in the Macedonian Struggle, and the Balkan and First World Wars, it tended to neglect civilian matters and was partially unresponsive to the needs of Greek society at the time.

Since 2012, the Hellenic Police has operated the CyberKid website and the synonymous mobile application, which aims to provide useful information to children and their parents about using the internet.

[52] In 2013, the Cyber Crime Unit of the Hellenic Police, under the auspices of the Ministry of Citizen Protection, organised a number of conferences[53][54] to inform kids and parents about the dangers that a child can have while using the internet.

A free of charge digital application called Panic Button,[58][59][60][61][62][63] which operates 24 hours a day, was introduced in Attica and Thessaloniki on March 27, 2023, and has since become available throughout the country.

[64][65] By pressing a button, it automatically sends a short text message to the police or other special services, and it locates where the user is through the phone's Global Positioning System (GPS).

The application can be provided by the Domestic Violence Offices which currently operate in 63 Police Precincts around the country, as well as counseling centers of the network under the General Secretariat of Demographic and Family Policy and Equality of the Sexes at the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs in Attica and Thessaloniki.

On November 11, 2024, a similar application was launched on the Google Play Store and the App Store called Safe Youth which includes an emergency panic button for kids who are in danger, an anonymous form to report crimes against underage individuals as well as informational articles about social problems and crimes the youth should be aware and cautious about (drugs, sexual abuse and rape, bullying etc.).

[71][72][73][74][75][76] The revelation made by a retired police brigadier and the newspaper journalist and police editor of Ta Nea and To Vima Vasilis Labropoulos on Mega TV’s Mega Gegonota news[77] on 2 February 2023 where it presents photographs from the drugs and recording of data of four, referring to the Panagiotis Theodorikakos who reportedly had done intervention in order to cover up and manipulate the case file, to destroy incriminating evidences and material, and to avoid arrest and transfer before a prosecutor.

[101] In 2020, 26-year-old Vasilis Maggos from Volos, was found dead one month after his arrest (during an environmental demonstration) and his beating by police officers that caused him serious organ damage.

[112] Hellenic Police have come under criticism for allowing the Dinamo Zagreb fans to assemble near the stadium and not stopping the brawl, intended to prevent the murder that occurred.

[127][128][129] A special police guard Epaminondas Korkoneas killed 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos on the night of December 6, 2008, following a verbal altercation with the teenager and his friends.

Iakovos Koumis (Sorira Ammochostos, 1956 – Athens, 23 November 1980) was a Cypriot law student who was fatally injured, along with 20-year-old worker Stamatina Kanellopoulou, by the Police Riot Units (M.A.T.)

[148][149] In a 1998 interview with the newspaper Eleftherotypia, Minister for Public Order Georgios Romaios (PASOK) alleged the existence of "fascist elements in the Greek police", and vowed to suppress them.

[150] Before the surrender of Androutsopoulos, an article by the newspaper Ta Nea claimed that the neo-Nazi political party Golden Dawn had close relationships with some parts of the Greek police force.

and "1048th electoral department of the 7th District of the Municipality of Athens, in which motorcycle police unit DIAS officers / Attica Directorate of Immediate Response exercised their right to vote, golden dawn also gained 11%, ranking third (as in national elections).

[164] In October, Greek police allegedly stood by while Golden Dawn members attacked a theater holding a production of the controversial play Corpus Christi.

Other vehicles that Greek Police has used throughout the years are the following: The original livery featured white roofs and doors, with the rest of the bodyshell in dark blue.

The current livery was first introduced on the Citroën ZX's, although the blue stripe on the earlier models was not reflective; this gave birth to the nickname "stroumfakia" (smurfs) for the Hellenic Police.

The school is made up of university professors, special scientists (for areas such as forensics) and high-ranking police officers who have specialist field experience.

The emphasis during training on the support and protection of children is such, that a number of highly successful individuals that were raised as orphans, have stated that they could not say with certainty that they would make it all the way to the top, without the social service that the Hellenic Police provided to them during their childhood.