Police Department

The Government on Wednesday approved the interior minister’s nominations for the new leadership of the Police Department, the Fire and Rescue Department (PAGD) and the Public Security Service (VST).

Based on the data of the Police Department, the number of road traffic fatalities increased by 30% in 2023, compared with 2022.

On Wednesday night, in Vilnius train station, two Belarusians got off the transit train travelling from Kaliningrad to Saint Petersburg via Lithuania and Belarus.

On Tuesday, in Vilnius district, Baraškos village, police officers fatally shot a woman who had attacked them and paramedics.

The National Crisis Management Centre (NKVC) has reported that Wednesday morning schools and other education establishments again received emails with bomb threats. The NKVC treats this as yet another information attack against Lithuania.

Three men on Friday arrived to serve their prison sentences after the court found them guilty of corruption and influence-peddling in the so-called MG Baltic case earlier this week, police say.

The Migration Department has been instructed to start the procedure for revoking Lithuanian citizenship of a Russian ballet dancer following her statements supporting Moscow's actions in Ukraine.

Around 2,000 bomb threats were sent to different institutions and companies on early Wednesday, police said.

Police received three emails on Sunday night with an identical text saying explosives have been placed in various institutions and will be set off today at 12:12 p.m. About 1,500 such emails were sent to some 1,500 recipients, it said.

Interior Minister Agnė Bilotaitė says a number of different institutions across the country have received a total of 900 emails with hoax bomb threats.

Lithuanian police announced that education establishments have been receiving mass bomb threats on Friday morning.

The police in Lithuania have enhanced security near synagogues after Hamas terrorists attacked Israel from Gaza on Saturday.

The Seimas approved on Thursday a package of amendments to the police law proposed by the Ministry of the Interior to integrate the Public Security Service (VST) into the Police Department.

The Police Department has acquired 19 new Mercedes-Benz Vito vans, which have already been fitted for police duties. The presentation of the vehicles took place on 20 July in the courtyard of the Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Consolation, in Vilnius.

The Lithuanian police have opened an investigation into alleged data breach related to the NATO summit in Vilnius.

Lithuanian police are starting on Friday to enforce a ban on non-essential travel between municipalities, with 250 checkpoints to be set up across the country.

The Lithuanian government has suspended 5.8 million euros in payments to Belarus under EU-funded programs following Belarusian law enforcement's crackdown on peaceful protesters after the rigged presidential in the country, Lithuania's Interior Ministry said on Thursday.

Lithuania's Police Department has on Tuesday denied reports that Lithuania's police might have handed over 15 surveillance drones to the Belarusian State Committee for Forensic Science on 16 September, with the law enforcement agency saying it did not contribute to the European Commission project in...

Some 11 people have been fined over the last weekend for failure to wear face masks covering the nose and mouth.

The monument to the Gaon of Vilna, the great 18th century Torah scholar, in Vilnius' Old Town was vandalized on Sunday for the second time in two months, the Police Department said on Monday.