What do the parties in Brandenburg say on public safety?

The AfD wants to make police work more attractive and raise pay at least to the level of the Federal Police. After 25 years of shift work, officers should be able to retire at 60 without pension cuts.

The AfD wants to pay police officers in Brandenburg better. They should earn as much as the Federal Police. After 25 years of shift work, they should be able to retire at 60.

The AfD wants to raise the number of police positions statewide to 9,500 and re-establish the police in rural areas. Police equipment and the courts, especially criminal justice, are also to be strengthened.

The AfD wants more police officers in Brandenburg. There should be 9,500 positions. Police should be present in rural areas again. The courts should also be strengthened.

The AfD wants more video surveillance at hotspots and automated license plate and facial recognition at border crossings. This is meant to improve threat prevention, manhunts and criminal prosecution.

The AfD wants more cameras in certain places. At the border, computers should recognize license plates and faces. This should help the police find wanted people.

The AfD wants to allow municipal police forces in order to offset the shortage of police officers in the short to medium term. A pilot project is to start in Frankfurt (Oder).

The AfD wants a police force for cities and counties. Staff from the public order office should get extra training for this. It should start in Frankfurt (Oder). These city police officers should not carry guns.

The AfD wants to eliminate the post of Polizeibeauftragter (police commissioner) in Brandenburg. In its view, the office entrenches permanent mistrust of police officers and is disproportionate.

Brandenburg has a police commissioner. People can complain to this office about police officers. The AfD wants to get rid of it. It says the office shows mistrust of the police.

The AfD wants the nationality and migration background of suspects to be made public. It argues that citizens have a right to know which groups are over- or underrepresented in crime statistics.

The AfD wants authorities to always say which country a suspect comes from. They should also say if the suspect has an immigrant background. The AfD says citizens have a right to know this.

The AfD wants to use the Bundesrat to push for harsher penalties, faster proceedings and easier pretrial detention. Prisoners would have to earn relaxations of their custody, and victims would get more rights.

The AfD wants tougher punishments. People who attack police or rescue workers should be punished more harshly. Criminal trials should be faster. Prisoners should only get privileges if they cooperate. Victims should get a lawyer.

The AfD wants to expand the joint German-Polish police and customs center to include fire services and civil protection. The state is also to inform the public about personal emergency preparedness.

Germany and Poland already work together on police and customs. The AfD wants fire services and civil protection to join in. That way both countries learn about environmental damage sooner. People should also learn how to prepare for emergencies.

The AfD wants to pay firefighters a uniform statewide expense allowance and provide standardized equipment and regular training. Youth fire brigades are to receive more funding and publicity to attract new recruits.

The AfD wants to make serving in the fire department more attractive. Firefighters should get the same allowance across the state. They should get good gear and training. Youth fire brigades should get more support too.

The BSW wants more officers on the street, all existing police stations kept open, and an end to job cuts. At the same time it rejects an overreaching state and prefers personnel to video surveillance.

The BSW wants more police officers on the street. No police station should close. The party thinks officers are better than cameras. People should be able to move freely without being watched.

The BSW wants to expand the police academy in Oranienburg so the state gets enough qualified recruits. Better promotion prospects, regular promotions and higher allowances are meant to make the job more attractive.

The BSW wants to train more police officers. The police academy in Oranienburg should grow. Officers should move up more easily. They should also get more pay for night shifts.

The BSW wants to restrict the powers of the Verfassungsschutz (domestic intelligence service) in order, in its view, to protect citizens from spying and manipulation. The constitutional loyalty check is to be abolished and parliamentary oversight strengthened.

The BSW wants to give the Verfassungsschutz fewer powers. The Verfassungsschutz is a domestic intelligence service. It should only watch extremists. The BSW wants to end the loyalty check. The state parliament should control the service more closely.

The BSW wants the state to give municipalities more and faster support for equipping and running fire services and disaster control. Volunteer responders are to get more benefits and protection from disadvantages at work.

The BSW wants more state money for fire services. Towns should use it to buy vehicles and equipment. The money should arrive faster. Volunteers should get more benefits. They should not face problems at work.

The BSW calls for tougher penalties for violent attacks on emergency and rescue workers and for obstructing them. The platform also counts road blockades, for example by climate activists, among such obstruction.

Some people attack rescue workers. Others get in the way of their work. The BSW wants tougher penalties for this. This should also apply to road blockades.

The BSW wants more staff and resources for the courts so that sentences are enforced faster and no cases fail because deadlines expire. At the same time, new recruits are to be won for the justice system and digitalization advanced with a sense of proportion.

The BSW wants more staff for the courts. Punishment should come soon after the crime. Cases should not fail because of deadlines. The state should win young people for the justice system. Private companies should not run prisons.

The CDU wants to fundamentally overhaul Brandenburg's police law and give officers new powers, such as source telecommunications surveillance, online searches and automated license plate recognition. Officers are to be equipped across the board with body cameras and tasers. The requirement to wear name tags is to be scrapped.

The police should be allowed to do more. For example, they could secretly monitor computers and phones. Cameras should read car license plates automatically. All officers should get body cameras and tasers. Officers would no longer have to wear name tags.

The CDU wants to expand the state police by 500 to 9,000 positions by 2029. Hiring standards are not to be lowered, and training capacity is to be fully used. Technology and artificial intelligence are to relieve officers of routine paperwork.

Brandenburg should get more police officers. By 2029 there should be 500 more jobs. Then there would be 9,000 jobs. Applicants must still be well qualified. Computers should take over office work from officers.

The CDU wants to create a "Märkische Grenzpolizei" (Brandenburg border police) as an additional unit of about 100 officers within the riot police. It is to carry out mobile checks and be deployed wherever reinforcement is needed. The program cites rising crime in eastern Brandenburg and illegal migration.

Brandenburg should get its own border police. About 100 officers would be part of it. They should do checks on the road. They should act against illegal entry, theft and smuggling.

The CDU wants to counter all forms of extremism through prosecution and prevention, especially in schools. The Verfassungsschutz (domestic intelligence agency) is to receive more powers, particularly online. The program names right-wing extremism as the biggest current problem, but also sees left-wing extremism, Islamism and foreign disinformation as threats.

The CDU wants to act against all extremists. Every crime should be punished. Schools should teach more about the dangers. The Verfassungsschutz should be allowed to do more. It is a secret service that protects democracy.

The CDU wants Brandenburg's domestic intelligence agency (Verfassungsschutz) to aim for about 200 positions and to modernize its technology. Police and intelligence should stay separate, but share more relevant information.

The Verfassungsschutz watches enemies of democracy. The CDU wants about 200 jobs there. The agency should get modern technology. Police and intelligence stay separate. But they should share more information.

The CDU wants to press for data retention at the federal level. It is meant to help prosecute child sexual abuse and online hate crime.

Data retention means phone and internet records are stored for some time. The CDU wants this at the federal level. It wants to fight child abuse better. It also wants to fight online hate.

The CDU wants crime victims at the center of state support. Victim assistance is to be expanded and better connected.

Crime victims should get more help. Victim support groups should get regular money. Children should get special protection. Dangerous offenders could have to wear an ankle monitor.

The CDU wants to turn the state fire academy in Eisenhüttenstadt into a state office for civil protection. It also wants a Brandenburg security strategy for crises such as pandemics, military aggression or sabotage.

The CDU wants a new office to protect people. It should be in Eisenhüttenstadt. It would combine fire and disaster protection. Brandenburg should get a plan for crises.

The CDU wants to better protect energy, water and data networks against sabotage, terrorism and attacks. This includes more video surveillance, fewer data protection hurdles for security agencies and a new cybersecurity institute.

Power, water and internet should be better protected. There should be more video cameras. Police should get data more easily. A new office should handle internet security.

The CDU wants to keep funding fire protection with at least 40 million euros a year. Volunteer fire departments are to get modern equipment and better training.

Fire departments should keep getting money. It should be at least 40 million euros a year. Their equipment should be modern. Schools should offer firefighting classes.

The CDU wants a dedicated child protection law for Brandenburg centered on children's welfare and health. To fight abuse, it would expand prevention and victim support and give investigators source telecommunications surveillance, data retention and online searches.

The CDU wants a law to protect children. Children should be safer from violence. Police should get more powers. For example, they could monitor phones and computers.

The SPD wants to raise the target number of police positions from 8,500 to 9,000 and deploy more visible police on the streets and in rural areas. It justifies this with growing demands and the public's sense of safety.

The SPD wants more police officers. There should be 9,000 positions instead of 8,500. More patrols should be out on streets and squares. Rural areas should get more local police officers.

The SPD wants to add staff to the criminal police and build up capabilities for online investigations. It points to mobile offender groups operating across regions and to new forms of crime; cooperation with the Polish police is also to grow.

The SPD wants more staff for the criminal police. Police should be better at investigating online too. German and Polish police should work together more closely. Police and local offices should meet to talk about safety.

The SPD wants only people loyal to the constitution to become civil servants and intends to remove those who do not offer that assurance from state service. Extremist organizations are to be monitored more closely, and the domestic intelligence agency will keep receiving support.

Civil servants must stand by democracy and the constitution. Those who do not should not work for the state. The SPD wants to dismiss such civil servants. The Verfassungsschutz should watch extremist groups more closely. The Verfassungsschutz is an agency meant to protect democracy.

The SPD wants to create a dedicated state office for fire and disaster protection to support fire departments and aid organizations statewide. It also plans a second site for the state firefighting school in Wünsdorf and further funding for equipment.

The SPD wants a new state office for fire and disaster protection. The office should support fire departments and aid groups. A second site of the firefighting school is planned in Wünsdorf. The state will give 40 million euros for buildings, vehicles and equipment.

The SPD wants to make fighting forest fires a priority because, in the program's view, such fires can push emergency crews to their limits. It plans a wildfire competence center, more equipment and more prevention.

The SPD wants to fight forest fires better. It wants to set up a special center for forest fires. Fire crews should get more special vehicles. Old ammunition should be cleared from the forests.