AfD on public safety

The AfD wants to repeal Berlin's state anti-discrimination law immediately and give the police more powers. These include full video surveillance in high-crime areas, more stops without cause, and nighttime curfews for juvenile repeat offenders. It also wants to create a district police force.

The AfD wants more cameras in dangerous places. The police should be able to check people more often without a reason. Young people with many crimes should have to stay home at night. A law against unfair treatment by public offices should go. Each district should get its own police.

The program calls for immediately repealing the Landesantidiskriminierungsgesetz (state anti-discrimination law) and revising other security-related laws. Problem neighborhoods are to get mobile police stations, a denser network of permanent stations, and more stops without cause. A legal basis is to be created for nighttime curfews for juvenile repeat offenders. An absolute ban on face coverings at assemblies is to be reinstated. A new district police force would be allowed to check identities, search people and belongings, order people to leave a location, and use direct force.

The AfD wants to hire more staff for the police, the justice system, and the fire department and to improve pay. Buildings and equipment are to be modernized, with heavy investment in the fire department. It rejects lower hiring standards and quotas.

The AfD wants more staff for the police, the courts, and the fire department. They should get better pay. Old buildings should be repaired. The fire department should get new vehicles and gear. Hiring standards should not be lowered.

The program calls for more positions and sufficient training for new recruits. Allowances are to keep rising, civil servants' pay is to reflect performance, and there would be extra financial incentives for especially dangerous duties in the police and fire service. Run-down buildings are to be renovated, the administrative court is to get a new building, and digital infrastructure, possibly including AI, is to be set up. According to the program, the fire department suffers from an aging fleet and a renovation backlog, so the budget should clearly prioritize rescue and security forces.

The AfD wants crime statistics to show a migration background even for German suspects. It argues that these groups commit crimes at a disproportionate rate and that this must not be obscured. Antisemitic, anti-German, and anti-Christian incidents are also to be counted separately.

The police count crimes in statistics. The AfD wants more data there on where suspects come from. For Germans too, it should show if their family immigrated. Acts against Jews, Germans, and Christians should be counted separately.

According to the program, Berlin suffers especially from crime committed by foreigners. In the future, the share of German suspects with a migration background is therefore to be recorded statistically, and offenses by foreign suspects are to be clearly named. Suspected anti-German and anti-Christian motives are to be listed separately, as are antisemitic incidents.

The AfD wants to fight organized crime and clan structures mainly through deportations and by confiscating criminally acquired assets. A special unit at the immigration office is to pool expulsions of foreign criminals. The program describes organized crime as largely imported.

The AfD wants to act against criminal clans. A clan here means a large family that commits crimes. Foreign criminals with no right to stay should have to leave. A special team at the immigration office should speed this up. The state should take away money made from crime.

A special unit is to be set up at the immigration office to pool and push forward expulsions and deportations of foreign criminals, especially from the clan milieu. A police working group called "Ident" would clarify the identity and origin of such people so they can be deported more easily. Organized-crime suspects are to be brought before an on-call judge within 48 hours. Assets from crime are to be seized and confiscated from all clans and organized-crime groups. The AfD does not want to tolerate parallel justice systems or lawless zones.

The AfD wants to reorganize Berlin's justice system, which it sees as overloaded, and to toughen criminal law. Children would be criminally responsible from age 12, and adult criminal law would always apply from 18. For knife attacks it demands harsher penalties and fast-track proceedings.

The AfD wants to make Berlin's courts faster. Children should be punishable from age 12. Today that starts at age 14. Anyone who is 18 should be punished like an adult. Knife attacks should get harsher sentences.

Cases against repeat suspects are to stay with the same prosecutor under the "old absorbs new" rule, and each of the six police directorates is to be assigned to a main division of the public prosecutor's office. In juvenile law, fast-track proceedings under the Neukölln model are to be expanded, short "warning-shot" detention extended to up to three months, and juvenile sentences made possible from three months. For knife crimes the program demands a tougher sentencing range, fast-track trials, swift deportation of foreign offenders, and more stops without cause; it rejects knife-free zones as symbolic politics. Prison security is to increase, sex offenders are to be informed about chemical castration, and biological males are not to be held in women's prisons. Religious chaplaincy in prisons is to be paid for solely by the faith communities.

The AfD wants to cut funding for organizations it classifies as left-wing extremist or as left-wing front groups. Islamist extremism is to be monitored more closely, and people deemed dangerous are to be deported even to Syria and Afghanistan. It demands tougher penalties for attacks on critical infrastructure.

The AfD wants to act against extremists. Extremists reject democracy. Left-wing groups should get no more money from the state. The state should watch Islamists more closely. Dangerous foreigners should be deported.

According to the program, Berlin has the most political violence, and anti-Jewish and anti-Israel crimes have reached a record high. The domestic intelligence service is to monitor campaigns such as "Switch Off" and their surrounding networks. The AfD justifies ending funding for left-wing organizations with the neutrality of the state. Also planned are a general ban on face coverings at demonstrations, an event security law, and action against parallel legal structures. Foreign offenders, dangerous individuals, and extremists are to be returned as part of what the AfD calls a remigration policy.

The AfD wants to expand Berlin's disaster preparedness and better protect critical infrastructure. Hospitals, nursing homes, and other key facilities are to get binding plans for power outages and sabotage. The program points to attacks on the power supply that it says exposed shortcomings.

The AfD wants Berlin to be better prepared for emergencies. One example is a long power outage. Hospitals and nursing homes should have backup power and emergency plans. There should be more sirens. Sirens warn people when there is danger.

In the program's view, Berlin is not sufficiently prepared for sabotage, blackouts, and longer failures of critical infrastructure. It demands mandatory plans for backup power, communications, and emergencies in hospitals, care facilities, and other important public institutions. The state is to build robust crisis coordination with clear lines of command. Museums, archives, and public cultural institutions are also to get fixed emergency plans. The siren network is to grow.

The AfD wants to close mosques it considers hostile to the constitution and ban the associations behind them. Mosques would no longer be allowed to receive money from abroad. The platform sees Islamism and religious fundamentalism as a growing threat to security, freedom, and social cohesion in Berlin.

The AfD wants to close some mosques. It means mosques that work against the constitution. Mosques should get no money from other countries. The AfD sees Islamism as a danger for Berlin.

The platform calls for the criminal prosecution of so-called hate preachers. All cooperation between public bodies and extremist institutions is to end. The ban on foreign funding would apply to mosques without exception.

The AfD wants to tackle litter, graffiti and neglect in public spaces. Public order offices would operate around the clock, littering hotspots would be monitored by video, and homeless camps and abandoned cars would be cleared quickly.

The AfD wants to make Berlin cleaner. The public order offices should work day and night. Places with a lot of trash should get cameras. Teams should remove trash and graffiti quickly. Camps of homeless people should be cleared.

Mobile teams along with so-called litter sheriffs and waste watchers are to remove illegal dumping and graffiti promptly. Abandoned car wrecks are to become more expensive for those responsible. The plan also includes more trash cans, an expansion of the recycling centers run by the BSR (Berlin's sanitation service) and more environmental education in schools. Residents are to take part through sponsorships and local initiatives; refugees who are able to work but not employed are to be used in trash removal.