Athens - Greek and British police announced plans to work together on Wednesday in an effort to crack down on drunken British tourists causing havoc at Greek resorts. British Foreign Office Minister Chris Bryant met with Greek Deputy Interior Minister Christos Markogiannakis and discussed measures to prevent boisterous visitors from breaking the law or becoming victims of crime.
Millions of Britons travel to Greece each year, and many are young people who are going abroad without their parents for the first time.
In the past few years, the number of British getting into trouble with the law in Greece has increased as well as the number who fall victim to crime, including rape, because they have had too much to drink.
In May, a Greek court allowed a group of 17 British tourists in Crete to go free after they were arrested for wearing nun costumes and allegedly flashing their backsides at residents in Malia on the southern Mediterranean island of Crete.
The tourist resort of Malia, as well as the Faliraki in Rhodes and Kavos on Corfu, are notorious for attracting boisterous visitors who visit each year in large numbers, the majority from Britain.
Officers from the islands of Rhodes, Crete, Zakynthos and Corfu will meet with their British counterparts on July 23 on Zakynthos to discuss the measures further.
