Administrative detention is ordered by the Hellenic Police. Detention orders by the Hellenic Police reached 10,715 in the first half of 2025. Detention, however, may also take the form of a so-called “restriction on freedom” ordered systematically and automatically by the RIS in the course of screening procedures in RIC and CCAC.14 Throughout the same period, the RIS took 18,441 five-day freedom restriction orders and 8,487 extensions of such restriction. The majority of freedom restriction orders concern RIC Malakasa (5,399). Hellenic Police detention orders by category: first half 2025 1185 3092 6438 Return (L 3907/2011) Deportation (L 3386/2005) Asylum (L 4939/2022) Source: Ministry of Citizen Protection, Reply to parliamentary question, 25 Aug 2025 This year too, official statistics confirm that the Hellenic Police resorts to pre-removal detention systematically and not as a measure of last resort, in line with international, EU and domestic law. Detention is an almost automatic adjunct of deportation orders issued unlawfully under L 3386/2005 in derogation from Return Directive safeguards against refugees seeking and receiving international protection in Greece. 99.9% of deportation decisions were accompanied by detention, compared to 62.3% in return procedures under L 3907/2011: Immigration detention in return & deportation proceedings: first half 2025 6438 Deportation Return 3098 2 3348 With detention Without detention Source: Ministry of Citizen Protection, Reply to parliamentary question, 25 Aug 2025 Detention with no prospect of removal 14 Article 40(a) Greek Asylum Code. RSA POLICY NOTE │ IMMIGRATION DETENTION | SEP 2025 5