Rescue worker's criminal mistake: the words they should have said to avoid tragedy

The mistakes of both the Agios Anargyros police station guard and the emergency services were tragic and criminal when 28-year-old Kyriaki Griva was stabbed to death by her ex-boyfriend.

To avoid tragedy, he should have said one simple thing, but he did not say it: so that the girl remains at the police station, where she would be protected, until a police car comes for her and takes her home, or until the person who was at the police station is checked, or until the police officer herself takes her home, because she lived a few tens of meters down the street.

The excuse that only the chief and the guard on duty were at the station, untenable. There was no need to even send a patrol car. The policeman just needed to escort the woman to her house, but he didn't even think to do it.

According to her leaked testimony (another plague of the Greek state, where documents and testimony are leaked so easily) in the media, a rescue worker allegedly said, “that you cannot get into a police car (on Sunday), but only call 100 to inform the meeting place or her house, or the police station, so that we can go to her house together.”

Even if that were the case, why wasn't she left at the police station before the patrol car arrived or before the person waiting at the police station was checked? There is no excuse for such an attitude. The ironic response of the policeman from Center 100, who said that “A patrol car is not a taxi.” Besides the fact that he has a lousy sense of humor, it betrays a lack of training and professionalism.

A professional representing the executive branch of the state, does not speak to a citizen with “humour”. Instead, he speaks like an official and never ironizes. In fact, he should have told Kiriaki from the very beginning that she should immediately return to the police station and wait there until the patrol car came to pick her up.

Once the girl left the station, it was almost impossible to save her, since the existing legislative framework does not allow police to immediately start shooting to kill, and for those who are not in the know, a person with a knife is the most dangerous thing you can meet on the street. A knife is even superior to a pistol at a short distance of up to 5 meters (it takes time for a policeman to have time to get a weapon and use it competently).

To avoid tragedy, all the girl had to do was not leave the police station. And this is primarily the responsibility of the duty officer and subsequently the employee of the 100 rescue service, who should have told her to return to the station. It is also unclear why was she urged to call “100” on your own, outside the police station? After all, if a police officer had called 100 herself, her call would, without a doubt, have been responded to differently.

All this suggests that the Greek police not only lack rules and procedures for all possible circumstances, but, if they do exist, the officers have not been properly trained and trained in their application. But the most unpleasant thing is that these employees think first of all about themselves, refuting the main lines of their oath – “serve and protect” because, most likely, they were simply too lazy to get up from their chairs and do something.

The price of this laziness is human life, the one that the policeman swore to protect.

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