Spring is the time for new beginnings in the public services, to judge by the succession of new faces which have appeared at local and regional government offices in Chania in the past week. On Thursday 6th March, as well as meeting the new head of Chania’s Traffic Police, the city’s mayor Panagiotis Simandirakis also received a courtesy visit from the new commanding officer of the Crete Naval Base at Souda, Commodore Dionisis Mantadakis.