AfD on public safety

The AfD wants to provide more money and staff for swift prosecution of crimes and to appoint more judges to the courts. Crimes from the far-left spectrum are to be pursued consistently, and conditions for prison staff improved.

The AfD wants crimes to be prosecuted faster. There should be more money and more staff for this. Courts should get more judges. Far-left crimes should be pursued more strictly. Prison staff should also get better conditions.

More judges are meant to ease caseload pressure and shorten long proceedings. The judiciary and administrative authorities should take part fully in electronic legal communication. Prison officers should be able to use direct force against violent inmates without endangering themselves, and drug dealing in prisons is to be fought. The platform accuses the state government of ignoring far-left crimes. Insulting statements should be treated by the same standards regardless of the affected person's politics, and criminal law should not be used to suppress peaceful political debate.

The AfD wants to hire more officers and equip the state police better. This includes tasers, body cameras and digitally equipped patrol cars. The platform justifies this with the tasks it expects in the coming years.

The AfD wants more police officers in Thuringia. The police should get better equipment. This includes tasers and small cameras worn on the body. Patrol cars should also get digital technology.

The training site in Meiningen is to be expanded as a priority. The AfD wants to review the organization and staffing plans and, in the long run, align positions in the state budget with actual need. For equipment, the platform names tasers and body cameras, which officers on patrol would decide to use themselves. The party also calls for a plan to digitize the police, with a focus on fully digital patrol cars.

The AfD supports video surveillance in urban places where it sees public safety as especially at risk. According to the platform, safety in city centers has declined, which the party attributes in part to immigration policy.

The AfD wants cameras in certain places in cities. These are places the party considers especially unsafe. The AfD says cities have become less safe. It partly blames immigration for this.

Surveillance is to take place where, in the party's view, public safety is especially threatened. The platform sees it as a measure for the period until the causes of crime are removed. It names the immigration policy of the other parties as one cause.

The AfD wants to abolish Thuringia's Office for the Protection of the Constitution (the state's domestic intelligence agency) in its current form. In the platform's view, the agency is politically steered and used against peaceful opposition; the party considers it beyond reform.

The AfD wants to abolish the Verfassungsschutz in Thuringia. This is a domestic intelligence agency. The AfD says it is used against the opposition. The party does not believe it can be fixed.

Politically or religiously motivated crimes would in the future be handled only by law enforcement. The platform considers a new agency possible for countering economic espionage. The AfD also demands a political and legal review of the agency's work over the past ten years. This is to include links to left-wing extremist institutions that the platform alleges.

The AfD rejects stricter gun laws and wants to abolish checks on gun storage that are carried out without cause. In the platform's view, gun law in Thuringia is used politically against government critics; the party demands that it be depoliticized.

The AfD does not want stricter gun rules. Authorities should no longer check gun storage without a reason. The AfD says gun law is used against critics of the government. This should stop.

The platform does not attribute the rise in violent crime to legal gun owners. It accuses the SPD-led interior ministry of instructing gun authorities to revoke permits held by government critics. The party wants this alleged misuse reviewed politically and legally. The AfD regards storage checks without cause as an unjustified intrusion on fundamental rights.

The AfD wants to make volunteering in Thuringia's fire departments more attractive in order to prevent staff shortages and the closure of local brigades. It also wants the state to spend more on firefighting equipment and to fund the construction of rescue stations.

The AfD wants to strengthen volunteer fire departments. Volunteers should pay less in local fees. The state should give more money for new fire trucks. Rescue stations should also become more modern.

Employers who hire active volunteer firefighters close to home would receive support. Volunteers would get relief on municipal charges such as property tax or daycare fees. The AfD backs school clubs that offer basic firefighter training. The supply of water for firefighting is to be guaranteed, if necessary through a suitably sized public water network. State funds and the funding rate for replacement equipment, especially fire trucks, would rise, and protective clothing and defibrillators would become eligible. The state rescue service law would get a funding provision for building and renovating rescue stations.