{"id":16223,"date":"2012-04-12T13:45:29","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T11:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=16223"},"modified":"2012-04-12T13:45:29","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T11:45:29","slug":"greek-police-is-available-for-rent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2012\/04\/12\/greek-police-is-available-for-rent\/","title":{"rendered":"Greek police is available for rent"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>There are many signs of a country&#8217;s economy in trouble, but I think this one is the most obvious one &#8211; renting out the services of police officers and their equipment to private citizens. \u00a0And that&#8217;s exactly what Greece is doing now, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.policymic.com\/articles\/6841\/in-greek-debt-crisis-government-puts-its-policemen-up-for-rent\">PolicyMic<\/a>, which is quoting a Greek newspaper Proto Thema.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As reported by the newspaper Proto Thema, for only 30 euros an hour, Greek citizens could now use police officers as personal bodyguards. For 10 more euros they can get a patrol car and for an amount of 200 and 1500 euros per hour respectively, they can have patrol boats or police helicopters. The minister, nevertheless, warned that the services offered will be limited to legal activities only.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It would be hilarious, if it wasn&#8217;t so sad&#8230;<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>There are many signs of a country&#8217;s economy in trouble, but I think this one is the most obvious one &#8211; renting out the services of police officers and their equipment to private citizens. \u00a0And that&#8217;s exactly what Greece is doing now, according to PolicyMic, which is quoting a Greek newspaper Proto Thema. As reported &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2012\/04\/12\/greek-police-is-available-for-rent\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Greek police is available for rent<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1593,2397,196],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-16223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-economy","tag-greece","tag-police"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7940,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/09\/22\/police-driving\/","url_meta":{"origin":16223,"position":0},"title":"Police driving","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"September 22, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"While surfing the web for driving tutorials, I came across an interesting site - PoliceDriving.com . 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