The new safety vest must carry on patrol police officers. So to be strengthened after the New Year’s Eve attacks the Security.
A fashionable variation to ensure greater safety in Hamburg: The police plans to continue to provide its officials throughout the downtown area with neon signal west. “We want to increase the visibility of police in traffic areas and thus strengthen the sense of security of the citizens,” said the police spokeswoman Tanya.
Police showed after New Year’s assaults strong presence in St. Pauli
The officials shall wear the vests patrolling and special operations “by tactical considerations” over the uniform. Even outside of downtown are riot police clearly more visible in this way in the future in so-called presence services. Interior Minister Andy Grote (SPD) described the acquisition against traders as “simple and sensible idea”. For example, victims of pickpockets in the city could use the nearest police officer seen much faster than before.
After the attacks in New Year’s Eve, the police had already shown on St. Pauli massive presence with reflective jackets. The public transport broke at the beginning of a massive, but has been recovering since a few weeks. “It is very important that you currently can see well in the dark officials. The fact that the victims have come in the New Year’s Eve is not directly to the officials at the end of the Grosse Freshet, the action has made much worse for us,” is it from the police headquarters.
Police unions see the new dress code with different eyes
Already last year, ordered police chief Ralf Martin Meyer after a trip to America on a pilot project on the subject. Last colors and materials have been used on a trial basis by police. “The final decision on a model is still to come,” says spokesperson of the AHE. Once these had been hit, a corresponding amount would be purchased on jackets. Cost of which could not yet be estimated.
The police unions are the innovation over uneven. “Against the introduction of such West is nothing wrong,” says Joachim Lenders, state chairman of the German Police Union. “But the reflective vest brings no additional police officers.” The situation is similar to the state chairman of the police union, Gerhard Kirsch: “I would also prefer the white uniform caps back want to improve visibility on the real problems, such a measure does not change anything.”
Hamburg police officers push millions of overtime before them
The theme presence is on the table for years. A program through which four years ago 100 officials should be accommodated in addition to the road could often only be tough against opposition affected policemen and implemented incompletely. Corresponding tests were failed again and again to the needs of the Police says Lenders. The union boss Gerhard Kirsch looks exhausted all possibilities by redistribution: “You cannot put more officers on the street, since the tasks in the management rather grow than shrink,” Kirsch said.
Also unclear is often what is at all to be understood under the term presence. “The burden of the presence is to a large extent at the layers of guards who occupy around the clock patrol cars or as reinforcement forces by the riot police are also in shifts in use,” says Lenders. “These are the policemen who have primarily to do with the citizens.”
Load of police officers continues to rise
The Senate acknowledged in the past that the burden on the officials has increased significantly. For Hamburg police are around 8,000 officials, added about 2,000 employees in the police service. Given the refugee crisis 50 retired civil servants were recently added back into the service. By 2019, the number of police recruits is a gradual increase annually from 325 to 425th
For the domestic speaker of the CDU parliamentary group, Dennis Gladiator, these measures are not sufficient. The Senate moved only deficiencies within the police force. “At some point it is no longer enough, always scantily pull a reflective tape back and forth. Then you have to buy a new one,” Gladiator said.