In 2024, the Panic Button pilot program – a mobile phone app that will allow women to “discreetly” notify the Greek police in the event of any threat or danger to their life or physical integrity – will be expanded to other regions of the country.
Panic Button is a digital service of the Greek state to combat violence against women. By a joint ministerial decision of the Minister of National Economy and Finance Kostis Hatzidakis, the Minister of Citizen Protection Yiannis Ikonomou, the Minister of Digital Governance Dimitris Papastergiou and the Deputy Minister of Social Cohesion and Family Maria Alexandra Kefalu, the pilot program “Combion Panikou” (“Κομβίον Πανικού”) was launched. expanded geographically and now covers the areas under the local jurisdiction of the General Police Directorates of the Attica Region, the Thessaloniki Regional Unit and the municipalities in which the country’s police departments are located.
“The government is using new technological tools to protect all women from violence. In close cooperation with the Ministry of Citizen Protection, Minister Yiannis Ikonomou and the Greek Police, we are moving forward to provide the Panic Button service in many areas of the country. We sincerely thank the Vodafone Foundation, which created and handed over the application to the Greek state, which it continues to support,” said Deputy Minister of Social Cohesion and Family Maria-Alexandra Kefala. Since the beginning of the year, 134 women have activated the panic button. A George from the island of Salamis did not make it…
The official added: “We are expanding the use of the panic button to help other women in our country feel safer if they are subjected to violence or their physical integrity is threatened. We will intensify our efforts to break the cycle of violence and create a culture of zero tolerance for violence, wherever it occurs and from whomever it comes.”
Let us remind you that in order to connect to the Panic Button application, a woman needs to fill out the following information: digital code, social security number (AMKA), full name, cell phone number, exact address and floor, name on home call, history of violent incidents, whether the offender has a weapon, presence of children and/or pregnancy, signs of addiction and/or mental illness of the potential offender’s history. The “panic button” was introduced on March 23, 2023.
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