{"id":3413,"date":"2024-02-29T02:17:55","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T00:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/?p=3413"},"modified":"2024-02-29T02:17:55","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T00:17:55","slug":"lefka-court-to-reopen-on-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/?p=3413","title":{"rendered":"Lefka court to reopen on Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The courthouse in the village of Lefka is to recommence operations on Monday\u00a0after being closed for over five years due to renovations.<\/p>\n<p>The building had been closed in 2018 due to safety fears, with court proceedings moving to nearby Morphou as a result.Lefka had been separated from Morphou as a \u2018district\u2019 in the north in December 2016, and as such would ordinarily have its own courthouse and police department, as all the north\u2019s other five \u2018districts\u2019 do.With the reopening of the courthouse on Monday, the north will have six district courts, in Famagusta, Kyrenia, Lefka, Morphou, Nicosia, and Trikomo.Lefka residents had\u00a0in January\u00a0expressed concerns about their village\u2019s lack of courthouse, with the Lefka Civil Society Organisations Platform saying an \u201cincreasing number of crimes\u201d had brought the matter to the fore.\u201cTrying those who commit crimes in the place where they were committed sets an example, and this is a serious deterrent, and aids in preventing crimes,\u201d they said.They had also spoken up about their district\u2019s lack of police department.Lefka\u2019s police department was transferred to Morphou in 1977, with the Turkish Cypriot police having made no move as yet to re-establish a Lefka police department since Lefka\u2019s separation from Morphou.\u201cA Lefka police department should be established immediately\u00a0before more serious crimes are committed in our district,\u201d Lefka residents said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_758250\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-758250\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-758250 size-full lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/lefka-court-to-reopen-on-monday.jpg\" alt=\"lefke court inside\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-758250\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The courtroom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Follow the<br \/>\nCyprus Mail  on Google News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The courthouse in the village of Lefka is set to reopen on Monday after being closed for over five years due to renovations. It had been closed since 2018 because of safety concerns, with court proceedings temporarily moved to Morphou. Lefka, separated from Morphou as a distinct district in December 2016, traditionally has its own courthouse and police department, similar to the other five districts in the north. With this reopening, the north will have six district courts located in Famagusta, Kyrenia, Lefka, Morphou, Nicosia, and Trikomo. Concerns about the absence of a courthouse in Lefka were raised by residents in January, highlighting an increase in crimes. They emphasized the importance of trying crimes in their place of commission as a deterrent. Additionally, there were calls for the establishment of a Lefka police department, which had been transferred to Morphou in 1977 and not re-established in Lefka since its separation from Morphou.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3414,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[995,932,21,3,538,250,582,891,996,406,184,268],"class_list":["post-3413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cyprus","tag-building-renovation","tag-court","tag-crime","tag-cyprus","tag-district-courts","tag-google","tag-justice","tag-kyrenia","tag-lefka","tag-nicosia","tag-police","tag-turkish-cypriot"],"acf":{"keyphrase":"","keywords":"","sourceimg":"","country-category":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ 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