CSU on public safety

The CSU wants to strengthen the police with 1,000 additional positions by 2028 and better equipment, and to add staff in the justice system as well. Extremism, hate crime and attacks on emergency personnel are to be prosecuted severely. The party wants Bavaria to remain the safest German state.

The CSU wants more police officers in Bavaria. By 2028, 1,000 jobs should be added. Courts should also get more staff. The CSU wants to act hard against violence, online hate and extremism.

Plans include fully digital patrol cars and a mounted unit with 100 horses. Police would use artificial intelligence and make use of leeway in data protection law; the state office for IT security would be strengthened. The hate speech commissioner and the Verfassungsschutz (domestic intelligence agency) would be expanded to fight extremism and antisemitism of every kind. New police positions are to be matched by new positions at prosecutors' offices, criminal courts and prisons. The courts would get electronic files everywhere and be able to take over police data automatically; fire service schools and disaster response would also be expanded.

The CSU wants to prosecute abuse of children and adolescents with full severity. To do so, data retention, interception of encrypted communications at the source and remote searches of devices are to be used as far as the law allows. Storage periods for sexual offenses would rise to ten years.

The CSU wants to protect children better from abuse. Police should be allowed to use phone and internet data for this. They should also be allowed to secretly search computers. Data on sex crimes should be stored twice as long.

The fight is to be carried out both online and offline. The CSU wants to double retention and storage periods for sexual offenses to ten years. Bavaria's special prosecutor's office for child pornography and online crime would be strengthened and the child protection outpatient clinic expanded. The CSU also advocates more World Childhood Houses in Bavaria, facilities for affected children.

The CSU wants to enlarge the Bavarian Border Police to 1,000 posts. At the federal level, it will push for the Federal Police to receive more capacity for border protection as well.

Bavaria has its own border police. The CSU wants more posts there. In the end there should be 1,000 posts. The Federal Police should also get more staff for the borders.

The platform sets a target size of 1,000 posts for the Bavarian Border Police. The CSU also intends to press at the federal level for more Federal Police capacity to protect the borders. The party considers the federal government's contribution indispensable.