Grüne on public safety

The Greens want to end the fixed checks at internal EU borders that have been in place since 2015 and replace them with mobile checks. The Bavarian border police would be dissolved because, in their view, border protection is a federal task. This is meant to ease the burden on people and businesses in border regions.

Bavaria's borders have had fixed checks since 2015. The Greens want to end them. Police should do mobile checks instead. The Bavarian border police should no longer exist. Bavaria should work more closely with Czechia and Austria.

The platform describes the border closures during the Covid pandemic and the fixed checks as a burden on border regions. Mobile checks are meant to focus police resources on especially serious crime. Cooperation with Czechia and Austria would be expanded, including through an exchange platform modeled on the Lake Constance Conference. Euroregions and similar cross-border bodies would receive basic funding.

The Greens reject storing data on soccer fans without a specific reason, noting that civil rights also apply inside the stadium. Fan projects are to receive long-term funding. A pilot project is to test reducing police presence at professional games depending on the situation.

The Greens say the state should not store data on soccer fans without a reason. Fan projects should get steady money. At some games there should be fewer police officers. The party wants to test this first.

The platform keeps the goal of a safe stadium visit for everyone. To that end, Bavarian fan projects are to get reliable, lasting funding. Cooperation and communication among everyone involved in soccer games are to improve. The reduced police presence is to depend on the situation at each game and will first run as a pilot project.

The Greens want more police staff and modern technology across Bavaria and want to relieve officers of tasks outside law enforcement. They also plan to step up the fight against organized crime, cybercrime and child abuse.

The Greens want more police officers and better technology. Police should have fewer tasks that are not police work. They should do more against crime on the internet. They should also do more against gangs and child abuse.

The investment backlog in equipment and police buildings is to be cleared, training modernized and regular further training made standard. The party wants more IT specialists and a virtual police station for filing reports online. It plans a state package against organized crime, including money laundering, and more action against online hate. People considered dangerous would be closely monitored and their networks exposed. Cooperation with authorities abroad and in other German states would be intensified, and diversity and the protection of women from violence would be supported.

The Greens want to change Bavaria's Polizeiaufgabengesetz (police powers law), abolish preventive detention and remove the term "impending danger." The party rejects blanket surveillance such as data retention without cause because it sees civil liberties at risk.

The Greens want to change the police law in Bavaria. Nobody should be locked up for weeks as a precaution. Police should not watch everyone without a reason. The party wants to protect people's freedom.

The party regards police powers far ahead of a concrete danger as an unconstitutional move toward intelligence-service methods and is suing before the Bavarian Constitutional Court. It also rejects a blanket expansion of video surveillance, source telecommunications surveillance (reading encrypted messages on the device) and software that predicts crimes. Automated data analysis would be allowed only with a clear legal basis and strict oversight, and police software handling personal data would run only on state-owned servers. Tasers would be reserved for special units. The Greens also plan a freedom of assembly law and want to keep police and domestic intelligence separate.

The Greens want individual identification for uniformed police officers, an independent police commissioner and a study on racism within the security authorities. Bavaria's domestic intelligence office is also to be reformed and placed under stronger parliamentary oversight.

The Greens want uniformed police officers to wear a personal ID. An independent office should check the police. A study should look at racism in the security agencies. Parliament should watch the intelligence office more closely.

The police commissioner would have powers to investigate. During identity checks, state police would have to give the reason in writing on request, in line with rules planned for the federal police. The party expects this to improve how mistakes are handled and to build trust between the public and the police. For the domestic intelligence office, the annual report would be prepared together with researchers and the system of informants would be reformed.

The Greens see right-wing extremism as currently the greatest threat to internal security in Bavaria and want tougher action against the scene. Right-wing extremists and Reichsbürger (people who reject the German state) are to be disarmed, vigilante groups stopped and exit programs greatly expanded.

The Greens see right-wing extremism as the biggest danger in Bavaria. Police should go after right-wing extremists more. They should not have weapons anymore. There should be more help for people who want to leave the scene.

Security agencies would get more digital analysis capacity to detect radicalization on social networks and forums. The search for extremists in hiding would be stepped up and outstanding arrest warrants enforced. Suspected violent right-wing offenders would be reviewed systematically using the risk assessment tool already applied to Islamist offenders. The party wants to examine bans on neo-Nazi groups and use association law against vigilante groups. Statewide protection plans are foreseen for refugee housing, synagogues and mosques. The recommendations of the NSU inquiry committees are also to be carried out.

The Greens want to better equip fire departments, rescue services and disaster protection because, in their view, the climate crisis means more emergencies. Public warnings, emergency supplies and the protection of critical infrastructure are also to be improved.

The Greens want stronger disaster protection. Fire departments and rescue services should get better equipment. There should be more sirens in Bavaria. Every town should know what happens in heavy rain.

Higher funding rates and help with tenders are meant to encourage municipalities to buy rescue equipment jointly. Plans include more training places and instructors, childcare and online training for responders, and a campaign to recruit women, people with a migration background and people with disabilities. The party wants to invest in battery-powered sirens and make crisis communication accessible and multilingual. A funding program would pay for heavy-rain modeling for every municipality. Emergency supplies of water, medicine, food, mobile coverage and electricity are to be expanded.

The Greens want to gear the prison system more toward reintegration and draft a rehabilitation law for that purpose. The program argues that the best protection against new crimes is when released prisoners do not reoffend.

The Greens want to help prisoners return to normal life. There would be a new law for this. There would be more therapy and more open prisons. That way fewer people should commit crimes again.

Plans include better medical care in prisons, more say for inmates and more ways to stay in contact with relatives. Pay for working prisoners would be brought in line with the minimum wage. The party also wants to strengthen victim-offender mediation, involve victims at every stage of proceedings and expand victim support through existing structures.

The Greens want a package of measures to protect rescue workers, firefighters and police from attacks. The focus is on prevention, since the program names alcohol as the most common cause of such violence.

The Greens want to protect helpers from violence. This means paramedics, firefighters and police officers. Alcohol is often the reason for attacks. So there should be more prevention.

Violence prevention would be targeted at alcohol and at specific groups. A statewide situation report would break down the offenses, and a study would capture unreported cases. Responders would get more training in de-escalation and self-defense. Additional counseling services are planned for those affected.