ANST (police code)

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People who are infected with HIV , hepatitis B or hepatitis C are identified in files and in the electronic databases of the German police with the abbreviation “ANST” for risk of infection .

It is intended to protect police officers on duty from infection. Persons recorded by the police as criminals, accused or suspected of a crime are registered.

The suspicion of having committed a criminal offense is sufficient for storing the abbreviation ANST and can continue even if proceedings have been discontinued or if an acquittal has been made.

The number of people affected by this label is only partially known. In August 2015, around 14,000 such entries were known in the INPOL database system in the Free State of Bavaria , and 29 people in the POLAS system of the Brandenburg State Police in August 2015. In November 2016, 870 people with the corresponding characteristics were stored in the “POLAS NRW” information system of the North Rhine-Westphalian police; in Lower Saxony, according to the Interior Ministry there, 4498 people were stored in January 2017.

According to a decision of the Conference of Interior Ministers from June 2015, the police are still allowed to mark people with the “personal information” (PHW) ANST for “contagious” in their nationwide information system INPOL.

Criticism of the storage practice

In October 2015, the general assembly of Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe protested against this “counterproductive and stigmatizing practice” with the “Munich Declaration”. It violates the basic right to informational self-determination and stigmatizes people with the diseases mentioned. This also contributes to the exclusion of people with HIV or hepatitis in general. (5) Marking people with HIV and hepatitis in police databases suggests a high risk where transmission is very unlikely, e.g. B. with a healed hepatitis infection or non-infectiousness due to successful HIV therapy. This would make fears unnecessary. At the same time, the labeling creates a pseudo-security if there is no corresponding reference to certain people.

Data protection activists and politicians from the left (6), pirates and the Greens have also called for an end to storage practices several times since 2015. Individual federal states, including Berlin, then abolished the regulation.

In a vote published in April 2016, the National AIDS Advisory Council recommended that data on HIV infections and hepatitis B and C be stopped in police databases. In this, the committee emphatically supports the concern to minimize the risk of infection transmission through suitable measures. However, it doubts that these measures are based on established medical knowledge and are necessary and appropriate for the health of the staff.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ronen Steinke: Berlin wants to say goodbye to the HIV register . In: sueddeutsche.de . December 1, 2016, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed on May 2, 2017]).
2. ^ NDR: HIV-infected people in database: criticism of the police. Retrieved May 2, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Police in North Rhine-Westphalia stigmatize HIV-positive people . In: German AIDS Help . September 7, 2016 ( aidshilfe.de [accessed May 2, 2017]).
4. ↑ Ursula Nonnemacher parliamentary group BÜNDNIS 90 / DIE GRÜNEN: Small question to the Brandenburg state parliament. August 5, 2015, accessed May 2, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Daniel Schwerd: Inquired: Will the state of North Rhine-Westphalia end the storage of HIV infections in police databases? (No longer available online.) November 11, 2016, formerly in the original ; accessed on May 2, 2018 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
6. ↑ Memory rage in Lower Saxony's police: data from HIV-infected people saved . In: the daily newspaper . ( taz.de [accessed on May 2, 2017]).
7. ↑ End the identification of HIV-positive persons in police databases! In: German AIDS Help . October 25, 2015 ( aidshilfe.de [accessed on May 2, 2017]).
8. ↑ New Berlin coalition sets standards in the areas of HIV and sexual diversity . In: German AIDS Help . November 18, 2016 ( aidshilfe.de [accessed May 2, 2017]).
9. ↑ National AIDS Advisory Board: "ANST" comment neither required nor appropriate . In: German AIDS Help . June 8, 2016 ( aidshilfe.de [accessed May 2, 2017]).
10. ↑ The National AIDS Advisory Board for the storage of health-related data in police databases under the abbreviation. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on May 2, 2017 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.