SSW on public safety

The SSW wants to strengthen the state police with more positions, good equipment and adequate pay in order to attract recruits. At the same time, the force should in the long run consist of equal numbers of women and men and hire more people with a migration background. The work of the state police commissioner should continue.

The SSW wants more police officers in the state. They should be paid well and have good equipment. As many women as men should work in the police. More people with foreign roots should work there too. The complaints office for the police should stay.

For IT specialists in the police, the party calls for pay that matches their training and for career prospects. The police should use more electric vehicles for city duty. Illegal gun possession should be pursued more intensively and legal weapons kept under close control. The state should fund research on the causes of violence and on prevention. Bilingualism, including regional and minority languages, should count more in hiring, for example in the border area.

The SSW wants to make it harder to obtain gun licenses and firearms and to monitor gun ownership more effectively. To prevent crime, the party also relies on exit programs, civic education and better rehabilitation of offenders.

The SSW wants stricter rules for guns. It should be harder to get a gun. The authorities should check gun owners better. Programs should help people leave extremist groups. Offenders should get better help to live without crime.

Exit programs for extremists should continue to receive funding, and civic education should be strengthened. The party wants to improve the quality of probation services and offender rehabilitation. The platform groups these measures under the goal of fighting crime preventively.