For the first birthday of the Bavarian border police, the state government praised the achievements of the new unit. The balance sheet shows that The fight against illegal Entry plays only a minor role.
Munich – The balance sheet, the officials of the Bavarian border police have raided your locker and put on Display. Utensils, with “Keyless-Go”systems can be cracked, bags, bundle to the brim with cocaine, or a big package with Cash, 255.000 euros, seized from a 22-year-old Syrians on the A 3 in Passau. The message is to be transmitted, is clear: The border police acts.
More than 26,000 identified criminal offences, traffic offences and the manhunt hit, reported the Ministry of the interior for the year balance sheet, of the border police. And both the Prime Minister Markus Söder as its Minister of the interior Joachim Herrmann falling over themselves with praise for their new unit, the Söder on Friday as a kind of “Bavaria-Frontex” referred to. “The border police is the stop sign for smugglers, traffickers and Criminals”, emphasized the Prime Minister. Herrmann points out that there have been since the establishment of the border police, 13 percent more Apprehensions in the border area than in the prior-year period.
Only 34 cases with immigration law offences found
On demand but it is also clear that in the case of a total of 362 inspections of the Bavarian police at the border, only 34 cases with immigration law offences were detected. The persons were handed over to the Federal police, 15 of them were brought to Austria and back. For comparison: The Federal police has registered at the German-Austrian border alone, from January to may, over 4000 illegal Entry and 233 smugglers.
The predominant part of their successes, the Bavarian border police reported in the veil of intelligence in the border area. Because it deals with drugs, fake passports, thefts, and thousands of traffic offences. Was started the unit with 500 officials, which were previously within the veil wanted to be active. By 2023, the staff is to be doubled, as merkur.de* reported, the first 100 additional police officers were added this spring.
SPD man Schuster sees the new unit as a search service
in view of the on Friday presented the balance-sheet of the Opposition in the Bavarian Parliament, remains of label fraud. Stefan Schuster of the SPD referred to the border police, as a “Farce”. The new unit was an intelligence service and not a border protection. This will not change anything to the fact that the officials did a good job. But that was also before the establishment of the border police in the context of the veil investigation of the case.
Catherine Schulze of the Green is still of the opinion that the border police was in breach of the Constitution. “Border protection is clearly and exclusively the responsibility of the Confederation. That’s why we lawsuits against the unconstitutional Bavarian border police, she deserves to be abolished.“ The high number of search hits, based almost exclusively on the successful work of the veil investigators. “It takes no Bayern-Ranger.”
*merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network.
Dominik Göttler
