CDU on public safety

The CDU wants to keep police hiring permanently high, improve pay and raise allowances to the federal level. Officers are to be relieved of administrative work and be more present across the state.

The CDU wants to hire more police officers. Officers should earn more money. They should do less office work. Then more officers are out on the street. Equipment should get better too.

More places at the police academy and a new training concept are planned. Pay grades A 10 and A 11 are to have regular promotions, and from A 12 promotion would follow directly after a successful probation period. Allowances for police, firefighters and prison staff are to match the federal level and count toward pensions. More police assistants are to take over administrative tasks. Working hours are to become more family-friendly, and overtime is no longer to be routine. Investment is planned in technology, vehicles and protective gear.

The CDU wants to introduce AI-supported video surveillance at crime hot spots and use body cams and electronic ankle monitors more often. It also backs temporary storage of IP addresses and the use of road toll data in criminal investigations.

The CDU wants more cameras at dangerous places. Computer programs should analyze the images. Officers should wear body cameras more often. Internet addresses should be stored for a while. The CDU wants to find offenders faster this way.

AI video surveillance is meant to protect people and identify offenders faster. The program justifies storing IP addresses with the prosecution of online crime, especially abuse of children and young people. Toll data is to be used against mobile gangs, for example in ATM bombings. As a benchmark, the CDU names data protection that, in its view, protects law-abiding people rather than offenders.

The CDU wants to drop the requirement for police officers to wear identification and justifies this with trust in the officers. Attacks on emergency personnel are to be prosecuted consistently and punished noticeably.

Police officers must wear an ID marking today. The CDU wants to end this rule. It says it trusts the officers. People who attack emergency workers should face clear punishment.

The program explicitly backs the police and all emergency personnel. The CDU regards an attack on them as an attack on the rule of law. Violence against members of the police, fire service, the THW civil protection agency and rescue services is to be prosecuted consistently and punished noticeably. The identification requirement is to be dropped.

The CDU wants to speed up criminal proceedings considerably and give the justice system more staff and digital technology. Protecting victims is to take priority, with more prison places, victim support and funding for women's shelters.

Criminal cases should move faster. The CDU wants to hire more judges. Courts should work digitally. There should be more places in prison. Victims should get more help.

Specialized prosecutor's offices for especially serious crimes and additional judge positions are planned. Justice careers are to become more attractive through better pay, modern IT and better working conditions; bailiff training is to follow the Baden-Württemberg model. Justice staff are to get better safety equipment and aftercare. Violence prevention is to become binding. In prisons, the CDU relies on secure custody along with anti-violence training, work programs and victim-offender mediation.

The CDU wants to act against extremism of every kind, link security agencies more closely and set up a state security council. Islamist threats are to be monitored and deported, the domestic intelligence service strengthened, and data matched automatically between agencies.

The CDU wants to fight extremism. This covers right-wing, left-wing and religious extremism. Dangerous Islamists should have to leave the country. The domestic intelligence service should get more staff. Agencies should be allowed to compare their data automatically.

The security council is to include the state government, security agencies, civil protection organizations, municipal associations and the Bundeswehr's state command. Against organized gangs, the CDU plans specialized prosecutor's offices and is considering asset seizure. Dual citizenship is to be recorded in crime statistics. The domestic intelligence service is to get more staff and modern analysis tools, and prevention work in schools, clubs and municipalities is to grow. The CDU says logging and oversight will safeguard the data matching between security and administrative agencies.

The CDU wants to expand fire and disaster protection with more staff, more money for municipalities and a statewide warning system. State-specific rules for fire trucks would be dropped. Long-serving volunteer firefighters would receive cash bonuses.

The CDU wants stronger fire services and disaster protection. Towns and counties would get more money for this. There would be a warning system for floods and crises. People who serve a long time in the fire service would get a bonus.

The state office for fire and disaster protection in Koblenz would get more staff and training capacity. Nationwide standards would replace state-specific rules for fire trucks, which is also meant to allow joint orders. Municipalities would receive 90 percent of the fire protection tax, with risk potential added as a criterion for distribution. The program plans a statewide flood and crisis warning system, regular state-level exercises and planning support for local protection concepts. Long active service would be rewarded with bonuses: 250 euros after 25 years, 350 euros after 35, 450 euros after 45, and 500 euros with a new award after 50 years. The CDU would subsidize class B and C driver's licenses with 500 euros each if the person commits to ten years of active service.

The CDU wants to upgrade municipal enforcement officers with a uniform job profile and new training, so they are more visible in public and relieve the police. This would be combined with better lighting, AI-assisted video surveillance at crime hotspots and more officers on the streets.

The CDU wants stronger local enforcement officers in towns and cities. Their training should be the same across the state. Dangerous places would get cameras with AI. AI means artificial intelligence. More officers would be out on the streets.

Training for municipal enforcement would become a full vocational program at the state police academy, covering law, field practice and communication. This is meant to increase the visibility of enforcement officers and relieve the police. With better lighting, AI-assisted cameras at hotspots and more officers on duty, the CDU aims to prevent crime and build trust. Against neglect and vandalism in public spaces, the program plans preventive measures and quick repair of damage.

The CDU wants offenders who commit violence against women, children or young people to be fitted with electronic ankle monitors, closely supervised and punished firmly. At the same time there are to be more places in women's shelters and faster help.

The CDU wants to protect women and children better from violence. Offenders will wear an ankle monitor. That is a device on the leg that reports where a person is. There will also be more places in women's shelters.

Protection against domestic and sexual violence is to grow through additional shelter places, quick access to help and better funding. Social housing is to be directed specifically at women and single parents so they can find safety quickly and start over. Violent offenders are to be closely supervised in addition to wearing the ankle monitor and, as the CDU puts it, face tough consequences.