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The latest kidnap in Kaunas does not suggest security has worsened in the country as child abductions in Lithuania are exceptionally rare, says Interior Minister Agnė Bilotaitė.

A missing 9-year-old girl named Agota has been found alive after a frantic two-day search by officers and volunteers, Kaunas police said late Tuesday. The police detained the suspect, who held the girl captive in a garage in Kaunas.

Minister of the Interior Agnė Bilotaitė on Monday met with Police Commissioner General Renatas Požėla to discuss the ongoing search of a 9-year-old girl who went missing a day earlier in Kaunas, Lithuania’s second largest city.

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

As bomb threats against Lithuanian schools and kindergartens continue, the police have identified multiple email accounts from which the treats are made.

Amendments to the Law on Protection against Domestic Violence took effect in Lithuania on 1 July. This established a 15-day protective order as a preventative measure against domestic violence. Hundreds of protective orders were issued in the first two weeks since the introduction of the amendments.

Minister of the Interior Agnė Bilotaitė on Friday met with Vilnius Mayor Valdas Benkunskas and Police Commissioner General Renatas Požėla. Afterwards, the minister announced that more security cameras would be installed in Vilnius as a crime prevention measure, even though the situation with crime h...

Some 250 control posts will be set up across Lithuania on weekends and during the holidays to enforce movement restrictions, Interior Minister Agne Bilotaite said on Tuesday.

The Lithuanian police will not give priority to violations of smoking in balconies, which will be banned from next year under respective amendments passed by the Seimas on Thursday, Police Commissioner General Renatas Pozela has said.

Twelve suspects and convicts whose extradition had to be postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic have been brought to Lithuania from the United Kingdom by a military plane Spartan, the Police Department reported on Friday.

An armed man shot a male police officer dead and injured a female police officer and fled. The incident took place in the village of Birbiliskes in Lithuania's northwestern Mazeikiai District.

Lithuania's police will step up patrols in the country's resorts and at cemeteries to ensure compliance with the existing quarantine conditions over the upcoming long weekend, Interior Minister Rita Tamasuniene said on Thursday.

The Lithuanian government appointed on Wednesday Renatas Pozela, the head of the country's State Border Guard Service, as police commissioner general.

Lithuania's police is carrying out an international investigation into police corruption in the country's second-largest city of Kaunas, prosecutor Vytautas Kukaitis told a press conference at the Police Department on Wednesday.

Vitas Vasiliauskas, the board chairman of the central Bank of Lithuania, has been named the most influential civil servant in Lithuania in the traditional elite survey, the delfi.lt news website reports on Tuesday.

Lithuania's police said on Wednesday it was involved in an international operation which led to the exposure of an armed gang of 22 persons who were involved in arms and drugs smuggling.

Lithuania's crime rate last year increased by 5,000, with the rise attributed to the introduction of criminal liability for drinking and driving, Police Commissioner General Linas Pernavas says.

An agreement has been reached with Police Commissioner General Linas Pernavas to suspend the police reform until the middle of 2017, says Lithuania's new Interior Minister Eimutis Misiūnas.

No major violations have been reported in the second round of Lithuania's parliamentary elections, Lithuanian Deputy Police Commissioner General Donatas Malaškevičius said on Sunday night.