Violence against police officers

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Violence against police officers covers all forms from verbal violence to assault and killing. However, only the more narrowly defined violent crime is statistically recorded .

In Germany, between 2001 and 2013, almost 1,000 violent crimes were registered by right-wing extremists against the police and other security authorities, including resistance against civil servants, breaches of the peace and assault .

The police union reported in 2014 that an average of 162 officers were victims of crime every day. The journalist Friederike Haupt suspects that these numbers should serve to secure privileges: “The two most important financial privileges of police officers are derived from the dangerousness of their profession: the police allowance and free medical care ... The greater the danger, the safer the privileges. For this, there is sometimes trickery in the demonstration. "

Since 2009, the police union has been calling for a new criminal law standard "Section 115 of the Criminal Code - Assault on an Enforcement Officer" to be created. Since 2018, "Assault on law enforcement officers and persons of the same kind, Sections 114, 115 StGB" has been recorded in the German police crime statistics. From 2018 to 2019, the number of advertisements recorded here increased from 11,704 to 14,919. An actual increase in violence against police officers cannot be derived from the increasing number of cases according to §§114, since this paragraph has only existed for a few years.

Rafael Behr thinks the statistics should be viewed soberly. Not everything that is registered according to §§114 is associated with physical damage. In addition, the violence against police officers is not increasing to the extent that politics and interest groups claim to benefit from this representation. Highlighting an increase in violence against police officers would be in the interests of security politicians in particular, in order to justify investments in security forces with whom they can demonstrate their own ability to act.

Homicides

Cases of police officers killed on duty receive particularly high media attention.

11 police officers fell victim to the terror of the left-wing extremist RAF , see Victims of the Red Army Faction .

The homicides at Runway West are the only fatal attacks on police officers in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany during a demonstration.

Right-wing extremists have killed several police officers since 1997:

  • On February 23, 1997, the Berlin neo-Nazi Kay Diesner shot and killed the Chief Police Officer Stefan Grage in Schleswig-Holstein; his colleague Stefan K. was seriously injured.
  • The right-wing extremist Michael Berger shot and killed police officers Thomas Goretzky and Yvonne Hachtkemper in Dortmund and Waltrop Matthias Larisch von Woitowitz on June 14, 2000 ; the police officer Nicole H. was seriously injured by Berger.
  • Police murder in Heilbronn (murder of Michèle Kiesewetter and attempted murder of her colleague Martin Arnold in 2007)
  • Police murder in Georgensgmünd (a supporter of the Reich Citizens' Movement shot and killed a SEK officer on October 19, 2016)

A number of police murders without a political background are also known. B .:

In 2020 Berlin-Neukölln honored the police officers Uwe Lieschied († 2006) and Roland Krüger († 2003) who were murdered on duty.

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  1. ↑ Answer to a request from the parliamentary group Die Linke 2014 (printed matter 18/1104)
  2. ↑ dpa / flo: union complains about violence against police officers. In: welt.de . November 10, 2014, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Violence against police officers: Howl, howl, goslings. The police lobby yells like no other: Police officers are attacked, spat at, insulted. But what is really true about the claims? And who is actually fighting whom here? In: FAZ , February 24, 2013
  4. ↑ gdp.de
  5. ↑ PKS 2019 - time series overview of case tables. Federal Criminal Police Office, accessed on March 30, 2020 .
  6. ↑ a b Topics of the day from June 22, 2020. In: ARD . June 22, 2020, accessed June 23, 2020 .
  7. ↑ corsipo.de
  8. ↑ Anton Maegerle reports: The police hater judged himself. After the terrorist act, members of the neo-Nazi "Kameradschaft Dortmund" distributed stickers with the text "Berger was a friend of ours. 3: 1 for Germany". Neo-Nazi enemy: the police
  9. ↑ https://www.rbb24.de/panorama/beitrag/2020/02/berlin-getoetete-polizisten-strassen-umbenannt.html