15 substantiate any disciplinary offences of police officers, and therefore, by decision of the General Director of this Office, the case was placed in the archive, as regards its disciplinary part. On the occasion of a complaint of the Social Refugee & Immigrants Support Network on illegal refoulement of alien citizens of Syria, on 26-05-2017, in the region of Evros, the General Regional Police Direction of East Macedonia and Thrace ordered an investigation, from which no evidence resulted that would substantiate any disciplinary offences of police officers, and therefore, by decision of the General Director of this Office, the case was placed in the archive, as regards its disciplinary part. On the occasion of a complaint of an alien citizen of Afghanistan to the Independent Administrative Authority «Ombudsman» on his illegal refoulement to Turkey, on 07-06-2017, in the region of Evros, the General Regional Police Direction of East Macedonia and Thrace ordered an investigation, from which no evidence resulted that would substantiate any disciplinary offences of police officers, and therefore, by decision of the General Director of this Office, the case was placed in the archive, as regards its disciplinary part. Upon a complaint of an alien citizen of Iraq on abuse consisted of beatings and electroshock, as well as removal of his personal items on behalf of the police officers in the border area in Evros, at the time of his arrest and detention, the General Regional Police Direction of East Macedonia and Thrace ordered a P.O.E. so as to find whether any disciplinary violations were committed and to attribute the respective disciplinary liability against any police officer illegally involved in any manner in the said case, which is in progress. After the completion and the decision-making by the proper agent you will be informed on its outcome. It is noted that the Police Staff Direction/HPH sent the correspondence in relation to the above case to the Independent Administrative Authority «Ombudsman» in application of article 56 of law 4443/2016 that decided, within its special power as the «National Mechanism of Arbitrariness Cases Investigation», to follow up its investigation and at the same time, it requested to receive the legal file of the P.O.E., prior to its hearing, to verify and to express its opinion. On the occasion of an ex proprio motu investigation of the Independent Administrative Authority «Ombudsman» in relation to the illegal refoulements of more than three hundred seventy-nine (379) alien citizens, mostly of Syria. Iraq and Sierra Leone, which seem to have taken place in the region of Evros on 6, 21, 22, 26 and 27-10-2017, as well as on 05 through 06-11-2017, 31-12-2017. 01-01-2018, 30-06-2018 and 05, 06, 09 and 28-07-2018, during which those aliens allegedly suffered mistreatment consisted of insults, threats, employment of violence and removal of their personal items, the Police Directions of Alexandroupoli and Orestiada ordered two (2) independent P.D.E.s, respectively. Upon completion of the P.D.E.s, they were heard by the Directors of the above Directions respectively, and since no liability of any police officer was found, they decided to place them in the archive as regards their disciplinary part.