The Police Union (GdP) has called for legislative changes and a strengthening of the security authorities after the double murder in Aschaffenburg. The tone in the Bundestag election campaign has significantly decreased in sharpness since Aschaffenburg and the Interior Minister’s Conference has convened an extraordinary meeting, which are expected reactions from politics, said GdP Chairman Jochen Kopelke to the “Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland”(Saturday editions).
“We need quick solutions now. We need them before the Bundestag election”Kopelke said. “And we need a massive strengthening of the security authorities now.”
The current debate on migration in connection with the Aschaffenburg case does not fully justice to the actual situation, he said. “The enforcement problems of the foreign authorities and the lack of deportation places are still not solved and cannot be solved by order, but only in cooperation with the responsible state governments”the union official warned.
The “many enforcement problems in the arms, foreign and criminal law”have not been solved by politics for years. “It needs a German security strategy and that costs a lot of money and should have been there a long time ago”Kopelke said.
The GdP chief also spoke out in favor of a medically compulsory monitoring of violent, mentally ill individuals in the healthcare system. Mental illnesses cannot be healed by police officers. “We must rely on the healthcare system and doctors”he said.
“These can only be reached by us often not at all, or they are not willing to provide information. The emergency responders are in such situations just like mentally ill people, left to their own devices, especially in extreme emergency situations.”This can often lead to “possibly avoidable escalations, such as the police use of firearms”Kopelke said. Therefore, existing legal regulations in connection with violent, mentally ill individuals need to be changed immediately and the health ministries need to engage more strongly.