Cyber Crime Unit (Hellenic Police)
The Cyber Crime Unit (; which can be literally translated as Electronic Crime Prosecution or roughly Cyber Crime Prosecution) of the Hellenic Police, for which legislative responsibility remains with the Ministry of Citizen Protection, was officially founded in 2004 with Greek Presidential Decree 100/2004 Government Gazette 69/Α/3-3-2004. In 2011 with Presidential Decree 9/2011 Government Gazette 24/Α/21-2-2011 was the establishment of the Authority of Financial Police and Cyber Crime Subdivision (), of Police Directorate level, commenced operation in August 2011 comprises the Financial Police Subdivision and the Cyber Crime Subdivision. It was  reformed in 2014 with Article 17 of Section 2 of Law 4249/2014 Government Gazette 73/Α/24-3-2014 in which renamed Cyber Crime Division (), including the foundation and structure of Cyber Crime Subdivision of Northern Greece in Thessaloniki. Although it is still continues to be commonly known to as Cyber Crime Unit or Cyber Crime Center. The legislation for the Cyber Crime Division has amended with the Article 31 of the Presidential Decree 82/2020 Government Gazette 183/A/23-9-2020. History. Cyber crime law enforcement part of the Hellenic Police was introduced in 1995 in the line of duty carried  out by police officers with information technology skills, among whom there was then police officer Manolis Sfakianakis who would later be appointed the first Head of the Cyber Crime Unit commenced in the Head’s post in the time of Unit's founding on 3 March 2004 renewing the term of office until 17 February 2016, following the appointment in of George Papaprodromou as the next Head from 27 May 2016 to 2 November 2018. The Cyber Crime Unit initially acquired IT equipments funded by private individual sponsors and consisted of around four police officers where it has since been  staffed by personnel around eighty covering different competencies including civilian personnel qualified with university degree and postgraduate studies. Sectors. The Office of the Public Prosecutor of Supreme Civil and Criminal Court of Greece (Court of Cassation; Areios Pagos) has been issued Encyclical 02/2019 on 22 May 2019 sets out the Cyber Crime Division’s terms of service and area of responsibility aimed specifically at what cases must submit to Cyber Crime Division. As of January 2020, the Cyber Crime Division () in Athens, and alongside its branch the Cyber Crime Subdivision at the Northern Greece () in Thessaloniki, operating 24/7 service is  further divided into five Departments: Services. It has resolved a large number of fraud cases, extortion and child abuse, while several resolved cases were only partially committed in Greece. The Unit has intervened in a number of suicide attempts. In addition, the Cyber Crime Unit was launched a mobile app called CyberKid accompanied with its respective website, funded through private sponsorship by the Wind Hellas providing useful information to internet users, especially children, parents, legal guardians, using the internet. The CyberKid app for portable devices (smartphone, tablet) is available for free download from the Google Play, App Store and Microsoft  Store that users can directly contact the Cyber Crime Division in the event of a cyber crime incident. The Cyber Crime Unit has organized a series of tele-conferences and a number of event days delivered a lecture and informative presentation open to the public in various locations across the Greece to showcase crucial cyber matters and dangers of internet. It was also co-organized together with the competence authorities the annual Conference of Safe Cyber Navigation in Athens funded by various sponsors, having simultaneously live streaming, with the first conference was held on 8 February 2012 honoring the Safer  Internet Day (SID). The Cyber Crime Division is operating a website called CyberAlert.