AfD on public safety

The AfD wants to create 10,000 police positions in NRW by 2032, bringing the total to 50,000 employees. It also calls for higher allowances, modern equipment such as body cams and Tasers, and a more visible presence on the streets.

The AfD wants 10,000 new police jobs. By 2032, the police should have 50,000 staff. Officers should get more pay for hard duties. Every patrol car should have a Taser. A Taser is a device that gives electric shocks.

To reach this number, more officer trainees would be hired and the service opened to applicants with an intermediate school diploma. Allowances for rotating shifts and unsocial hours would rise, with tax-free allowances for especially stressful assignments and a separate bonus for IT specialists. The case-processing system VIVA would be replaced with user-friendly software. After the current trial, all 47 district police authorities would get enough Tasers. More police and public-order officers in public spaces are meant to make people feel safer.

The AfD wants much harsher punishment for attacks on and insults against police officers, emergency responders, and others who serve the public. It regards such acts as an attack on the rule of law.

Anyone who attacks police or rescue workers should get a harder punishment. This also covers attacks on bus drivers and office staff. Insults should be punished too. The AfD says such acts hurt the whole state.

Those covered would include employees of state and municipal authorities, fire departments, emergency services, bus and tram drivers, and prison staff. Sentencing ranges would rise noticeably and the offenses would be prosecuted consistently. According to the platform, respect for public servants has dropped sharply and people attack them more readily. The party opposes attempts to disparage the police.

The AfD wants to fight clan crime across all authorities and sets out a four-part list of measures. These include raids and asset seizure, but also deportations and stripping dual nationals of their German passport.

The AfD wants to act harder against criminal clans. There should be more checks and raids. Criminals without a German passport should have to leave. People with two passports should lose the German one.

First, public-order, criminal, and procedural law would be used to the full and developed further. Second, the platform lists inspections of hookah bars, betting shops, and gambling halls as well as financial investigations. Third, the AfD calls for a Bundesrat initiative so that organized crime counts as "turning away" from Germany, making loss of citizenship possible. Fourth, unwanted migration is to be ended. The party considers the outgoing state government's approach inadequate.

The AfD wants to require police and prosecutors always to state suspects' nationality and any migration background in press releases. It argues that citizens are entitled to transparent communication from the authorities.

Police and prosecutors should always name where suspects come from. This includes their passport and any migration background. The AfD says citizens have a right to this information. Researchers should also study the topic more closely.

Additional nationalities would also have to be stated. The platform cites NRW crime statistics showing that more than 30 percent of suspects in 2020 were not German, against a population share of 13.6 percent. The AfD also demands that crime by foreigners and migrants be researched without ideological constraints. State-funded institutions would have to ensure a range of research approaches.

The AfD wants the police to protect Jewish institutions more intensively. It justifies this with a rise in insults and physical attacks against Jewish people, including in North Rhine-Westphalia.

The AfD wants better protection for Jewish institutions. The police should guard them more. The AfD says Jewish people are insulted and attacked more often. This also happens in North Rhine-Westphalia.

The platform states that verbal and physical attacks on Jewish citizens have become more frequent in recent years. As a preventive step, the police are to guard Jewish institutions more intensively. The demand is addressed to the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

The AfD demands action against left-wing extremism through executive, legislative, budgetary and social policy means. The state government should examine and pursue bans on militant left-wing extremist groups. The party also wants to cut ties between the left-wing extremist scene and the youth organizations of the SPD and the Greens.

The AfD wants to act more strongly against left-wing extremism. The state government should check whether violent left-wing groups can be banned. The AfD also sees links to the youth groups of the SPD and the Greens. It wants to ban these links.

The platform cites more than 1,430 politically motivated crimes and 135 violent crimes by left-wing extremists in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2020, as well as violence among the occupiers of the Hambach Forest. The state government is to examine bans on militant left-wing extremist organizations and obtain them where possible. The AfD sees mutual ties between left-wing extremists and the youth wings of the SPD and the Greens. It wants to end these by banning dual memberships, joint appeals and declarations of solidarity. The AfD refers to the anti-totalitarian founding consensus of the Federal Republic.

The AfD wants only people with a clearly verifiable identity to be allowed to work for private security firms. It argues that asylum seekers can also take the required competence exam, and that many of them entered the country without valid papers.

Private security firms guard buildings and events. The AfD wants only people with a proven identity to work there. The AfD says many asylum seekers have no valid papers. So they should not work in these jobs.

According to the platform, the competence exam for the security trade currently requires only professional preparation and a certificate of good conduct. This means people who came to the country through the asylum process can also enter the industry. The platform states that more than half of this group entered without genuine and valid proof of identity. Access to the trade is therefore to be tied to an identity that can be verified beyond doubt.

The AfD wants to expand disaster protection in organization and funding and raise the flood protection budget by one third. The money is to come from climate protection funds. Volunteer emergency and rescue workers are to receive a new badge of honor and a bonus.

The AfD wants to spend more money on flood protection. The money should come from climate protection. Storm warnings should reach people better. Sirens should work. Volunteers in fire and rescue services should get a bonus.

The flood protection budget is to grow by one third, financed by shifting money from climate protection. The reporting chain for severe weather warnings is to be improved all the way up to political decision-makers, and sirens are to be in working order and used in an emergency. For volunteers in fire departments and aid organizations, the AfD plans a new badge of honor after 15 years of active service. In addition, there is to be a bonus modeled on Hesse of 1,000 euros for ten years of service. The platform argues that fire and disaster protection in North Rhine-Westphalia relies mainly on about 84,000 volunteer firefighters and 20,000 volunteer helpers.

The AfD wants activities of Islamic associations that go beyond religion to be monitored, restricted or banned where there is suspicion. Cooperation with the Turkish-backed DITIB would end, and imams would have to commit to the constitution and preach in German. The party holds that Islam, as a force shaping society, does not belong to Germany.

The AfD wants to watch Islamic associations more closely. Groups that oppose the constitution should be banned. Imams should preach in German. Foreign money for mosques should stop.

Anti-constitutional religious associations would be banned, and mosque associations with mostly foreign members examined if suspected of supporting violence. Cooperation with umbrella groups such as the Central Council of Muslims and the Islamrat would depend on their commitment to the Basic Law; participants in state forums would also have to recognize Israel's right to exist in their bylaws. Foreign imams would need B2-level German and be expelled if they agitate against the legal order; foreign financing of mosques would be stopped as far as legally possible. Writings demanding, in the name of Islam, the death penalty for apostasy, blasphemy or adultery would be banned and removed from mosque libraries, and preaching bans are foreseen for calls to discriminate. Polygamy and forced or child marriages would have no validity. The state's domestic intelligence office would get a unit to prevent the radicalization of Muslim children and youths.