 Τhe Tourist Police is a Service of the Greek Police Force staffed with specially trained, foreign-language speaking personnel. It has the duty to provide the following services:
- It cooperates with locally competent Directorates of Tourism and local authorities in order to deal with tourism issues.
- It gives information to Greek and foreign visitors and offers them assistance related to tourist businesses.
- It ensures that the tourist legislation in force is applied in all tourist areas, businesses and media, such as hotels, apartments and rooms to let, tourist shops, tourist agencies and coaches, car and motorcycle rental agencies, archaeological sites, tourist guides, ski resorts, spa towns, stations, sanitary facilities in camping areas, etc.
- It carries out inspections of tourist businesses in order to provide better services and higher protection to visitors.
You can recognise a Greek Tourist Police officer by the followings:
White band on the cap
White gloves
White belt
The insignia ‘TOURIST POLICE' written on the front of the shirt
 For any need you can contact the Greek Tourist Police around the clock by dealing 171. This line provides all kind of information and instructions in Greek, English, French and German helping tourists to deal with any arising problem.
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