BSW on public safety

The BSW wants a community-oriented, preventive police force with enough staff, especially in patrol and investigative units. The party prefers more officers on the street to additional video cameras. Training, promotion prospects and allowances are to be improved.

The BSW wants more police officers on the street. The party thinks this helps more than cameras. People should be able to move around without fear of being watched. Officers should get good training. Their job should become more attractive.

The expert commission that assesses police staffing needs is to be kept, and its forecasts are to feed into budget planning. Police administration is to grow accordingly, especially in IT. De-escalation and psychological knowledge are to get more weight in training, and all training sites are to be retained. For the profession, the platform plans a reform of performance reviews, allowances for special hardships and preventive health care. State action is always to be proportionate and respect the presumption of innocence.

The BSW wants to restrict the powers of Saxony's Landesamt für Verfassungsschutz (state domestic intelligence agency) and strengthen parliamentary oversight of it. Political and religious extremism is still to be monitored and fought. The party rejects monitoring of dissenting opinions.

The Verfassungsschutz is the state's domestic intelligence agency. The BSW wants it to have fewer powers. It should still watch extremists. But it should not pressure people because of their opinions. The state parliament should oversee it more strictly.

The party justifies the plan by saying citizens should feel safe from spying and manipulation. Anti-constitutional efforts in political or religious extremism are still to be monitored and fought rigorously. The parliamentary oversight body is to get more ways to review all of the agency's activities. The platform also opposes "cancel culture" and what it sees as a narrowing range of acceptable opinion.

The BSW wants criminal cases to be completed faster and sentences to be enforced more quickly. More staff, more resources and better IT are to be provided for this. In prisons, more staff should ease the workload, and the party rejects private operators.

The BSW wants punishment to follow a crime quickly. Cases should not end because there is too little time. For this there should be more staff and better computer systems. More people should work in prisons. Private companies should not run prisons.

According to the program, cases must not be dropped because they cannot be handled in time. More staff and resources and major technical improvements in IT are meant to speed up case handling. In the prison service, additional staff should reduce the workload, and recruitment should start early. The BSW regards running prisons as a sovereign task of the state. It rejects private operators and private security services in courts and prisons.

The BSW wants to prevent crime early and comprehensively. More school social workers and street workers are to be deployed. The justice system and prisons are to get more room in school curricula.

The BSW wants to prevent crime early. Children and young people should learn responsibility. There should be more social workers in schools and on the streets. Students should learn more about courts and prisons. They should visit court hearings.

Prevention is meant to raise young people to take responsibility for their actions. The program provides for more school social work and more street workers. The topics of justice and the prison system are to be anchored more firmly in curricula. Visits to court hearings and exchanges with prison staff and lawyers are to become mandatory for students.