Grüne on public safety

The Greens want a fundamental renewal of civil protection and disaster response in Saxony, citing new demands from climate change and an aging population. They plan a state office for civil protection and better preparedness among both the public and the administration.

The Greens want Saxony to be better prepared for disasters. The main reason is climate change. There should be a new state office for protecting the public. People should be able to prepare better themselves. People with disabilities should be well protected too.

Equipment and rules for non-police emergency response are to be updated. Personal preparedness is to grow through outreach programs that spread in a snowball fashion. Staff at the Landesdirektion (state administrative authority) would be required to take training. Joint disaster drills and expanded cross-border rescue services are planned with Poland and the Czech Republic. The first-responder system is to be supported, psychosocial emergency care made a separate service area, and accessibility built into planning.

The Greens want quality and fair pay to count for more than price when rescue service contracts are awarded. Selection by the administration, rather than Europe-wide tendering, is to become the norm. Uniform standards and incentives are planned for fire departments.

The Greens want a good rescue service. The cheapest price should not decide who runs it. Good care and fair pay matter more. Ambulances should arrive faster. Volunteer fire departments should get more support.

The party welcomes the option to exempt rescue services from Europe-wide tendering and wants the administrative selection procedure to become standard. Supervisory measures are meant to improve response times. Cross-regional quality standards are to apply to rescue services and preventive fire protection. Firefighting equipment is to be standardized through bulk purchasing and model products. Incentive schemes are meant to strengthen volunteer fire departments and raise their daytime readiness.

The Greens want to dissolve Saxony's Landesamt für Verfassungsschutz (state domestic intelligence office) in its current form over the longer term. It is to be replaced by a well-supervised agency that detects terrorist threats early. The use of informants is to be restricted.

The Greens want to rebuild the domestic intelligence office in Saxony. The office should no longer exist as it is today. A new agency should spot terror threats early. It should be well supervised. Informants should be used less often.

The new agency is to investigate terrorist threats at an early stage. Tighter and clearer rules are to apply to V-Personen, meaning informants from within the groups being watched. The party also rejects on-device interception of communications and remote device searches for intelligence services. Above all, it wants to expand civil society's role in protecting the constitution.

The Greens want a police force that is visible locally, with adequate staffing and more community officers. At the same time, an independent police commissioner attached to the state parliament is to oversee police work. Training and crime prevention are to be expanded.

The Greens want the police to be visible in local areas. There should be more community officers. An independent office at the state parliament should watch over the police. Officers can also go there with their own problems. Police training should become more modern.

More staff is planned mainly for traffic policing and for fighting internet crime. Police tasks are to be critically reviewed, and the party rejects new intervention powers for municipal public-order agencies. The commissioner is to investigate misconduct and crimes by police staff. Outside teachers from law and psychology are to take part in training, with legal instruction run together with universities. A new leadership strategy is to teach intercultural skills, among other things. The ASSKomm network and the state prevention council are to be strengthened, and the periodic security report continued.

The Greens want to amend the police law in favor of civil liberties following a ruling by the state constitutional court. The party rejects heavier weapons, Tasers for regular officers and more video surveillance without specific cause. Assembly law is to be liberalized further.

The Greens want to change the police law. Citizens' rights should count for more. The police should not get hand grenades and machine guns. There should not be more video surveillance without a reason. Protests should be watched less.

The party opposes equipping the police with hand grenades and machine guns, which it calls militarization. Tasers are to remain limited to special units. Body cameras are to serve mainly to document police conduct. Technical surveillance of assemblies is to be restricted. The rights of civil-society, democratic and antifascist protest are not to be curtailed.

The Greens want to permanently secure and expand contact points for people affected by hate crime. It should also be possible to report online hate anonymously. A master plan and a child protection commissioner for the justice system are meant to better protect children in criminal proceedings.

The Greens want to protect crime victims better. Offices for victims of hate should stay and grow. People should be able to report online hate without giving their name. Children should get special protection in criminal cases. There should be a child protection commissioner for this.

The contact person for LGBTIAQ+ people and the central office for victims of right-wing extremism and antisemitism are to be secured. Law enforcement staff are to be trained in dealing with specific victim groups and in tools such as victim-offender mediation, including anti-racist and anti-sexist skills. The center for criminological research in Chemnitz is to receive permanent institutional funding. The Childhood-Häuser (child-friendly interview centers) are to be expanded. Staff, technology and structures are to be provided for prosecuting sexualized violence against children and violence against women in their close environment.

The Greens want to abolish the Ersatzfreiheitsstrafe, the jail term imposed when someone does not pay a criminal fine. The party places more weight on responses to crime that center on the victim.

Today, people who do not pay a fine can go to jail. The Greens want to end this kind of jail term. They prefer solutions worked out between offender and victim.

The party reaffirms that it will keep working to end this form of detention. The demand appears alongside victim-centered responses to crime such as victim-offender mediation. Law enforcement staff are to be made more aware of such tools.

The Greens want a municipality in Saxony to become a model region for the controlled sale of cannabis. This is to happen as part of the corresponding federal project. The party argues that legalization serves crime prevention.

The federal government plans test regions for selling cannabis. Cannabis is sold there under controls. The Greens want a town in Saxony to take part. They say this helps prevent crime.

The demand refers to the federal plan to test controlled sales in selected regions. At least one municipality in Saxony is to take part. In the platform's view, legalization contributes to crime prevention.

The Greens want to amend the prison law so that inmates can build up transition savings and pay financial compensation to victims. They also want to expand therapy, medical care, education and contact options in prisons.

The Greens want to change prisons in Saxony. Inmates should be able to save money for life after prison. They should also be able to pay money to victims. There should be more help with addiction and mental illness.

The platform names transition savings and financial compensation for victims as goals of imprisonment. Rehabilitation measures are to be studied by researchers on a permanent basis, and digital education for inmates is to grow. Addiction therapy, care for inmates with mental illness, general medical care and prison staffing are to be strengthened. Women are to get dedicated services, the mother-and-child unit in Chemnitz is to be open to more inmates, and sexual and gender diversity is to be protected. Video calls, video interpreting, dedicated chaplaincy such as for Muslim inmates, and open forms of custody are to be expanded.

The Greens want to regulate and expand support after release from prison by law in order to reduce reoffending. This includes psychosocial help, addiction therapy and housing for people released.

People need help after prison. The Greens want a law that secures this help. There should be addiction therapy and mental health support. People leaving prison should also get a home. The aim is fewer repeat crimes.

After release, psychosocial care and addiction therapy are to be guaranteed, and a legal basis is to be created for this. Independent offender-support organizations are to be involved on a lasting basis and funded well. Housing First projects, which give homeless people a home as the first step, are to be made permanent. Agreements with municipalities are to make municipal housing available for people leaving prison.