What do the parties in Bremen say on public safety?

The BIW calls for a consensus against political and religious extremism alike and accuses the Senate of playing down left-wing radicalism. Islamist and Salafist activities are to be fought with every means available under the rule of law.

The BIW opposes all extremism. That means political and religious extremism. The state should fight Islamists with all legal means. Politicians should only talk with Muslim groups that respect the constitution.

The BIW wants to grow the police to 3,000 officers in Bremen and 550 in Bremerhaven and return to neighborhood-based precincts. Under the motto "zero tolerance," the state is to step in consistently even for minor offenses.

The BIW wants more police officers in Bremen and Bremerhaven. Every district should have a police station again. Stations should be open day and night. Police should act even on small offenses.

The BIW wants to build a volunteer security patrol of suitable citizens, modeled on Bavaria and Saxony. It is meant to relieve the police of simple tasks and increase the state's visible presence through patrols.

The BIW wants a security patrol. These are volunteer citizens who help the police. They take on simple tasks. They also walk patrols.

The BIW wants Bremen to push in the Bundesrat for doubling the minimum sentence for resisting law enforcement officers. Patrol officers are to get Tasers and body cameras for their own protection.

People who attack police officers should get harsher sentences. The minimum sentence should be 12 months instead of 6. Patrol officers should get Tasers. A Taser is an electric stun device. They should also wear body cameras.

The BIW wants to do more to stop crimes before they happen. To that end, it wants more cameras in high-crime locations and methods such as predictive policing.

The BIW wants to stop crimes before they happen. Dangerous places should get more cameras. Computers should tell police where crimes are likely. Children should learn to settle fights without violence.

The BIW opposes legalizing cannabis and wants to cap the amount exempt from prosecution at six grams. Possession of hard drugs would always be prosecuted, and open drug scenes would not be tolerated. The guiding principle is abstinence rather than substitutes.

The BIW is against legal cannabis. Only up to 6 grams should go unpunished. Hard drugs should always lead to a case. The BIW wants fewer substitute drugs like methadone. Instead there should be more therapy.

The BIW wants to relieve hunters and sport shooters of fees and frequent inspections. Authorities should instead focus on illegal weapons, which the platform sees as the real danger.

Hunters and sport shooters own legal guns. The BIW wants to burden them less. A fee for inspections should be dropped. Police should deal with illegal weapons instead.

The BIW wants sentences to be based mainly on the harm to the victim and considers Bremen's courts too lenient. Juvenile repeat offenders would go to closed homes, early release would be the exception, and prisons would be more tightly controlled.

The BIW wants harsher sentences. The victim should matter more than the offender. Young people with many crimes should go to closed homes. Prisoners should get out early less often. Prison visitors should be checked closely.

The CDU wants to make buses, trams, and stations safer through a comprehensive security plan. Police and municipal enforcement officers would be more visible there. In the program's view, public transit will otherwise not become an alternative to the car.

The CDU wants to make buses, trams, and stations safer. More police and enforcement officers should be present there. The party says people only use public transit if they feel safe.

The CDU wants to ban alcohol and drug use, alcohol sales, and aggressive begging around Bremen's main train station. At the same time, a coordination office involving all relevant government departments is to help people in the station scene, since the party says policing alone will not solve the situation.

The CDU wants new bans at Bremen's main train station. Nobody may drink alcohol or take drugs there. Selling alcohol and pushy begging are also banned. A new office should help the people there.

The CDU wants to fill all 110 neighborhood contact officer positions and expand technical surveillance of public places. A mobile police station operating around the clock is to be set up at Bremen's main train station. The platform justifies this with what it sees as a security problem in Bremen.

The CDU wants more police on the streets. Every district should have its own contact officers. There should be more cameras in public places. A police station at the main train station should be open day and night.

The CDU wants to raise the number of police officers by 2027 to at least 3,000 in Bremen and at least 580 in Bremerhaven. A police academy offering a police-track vocational diploma ("Fachabitur Polizei") is to open the job to people without the Abitur. Pay and allowances are to rise to make the job more attractive.

The CDU wants to hire more police officers. Bremen should have at least 3,000. Bremerhaven should have at least 580. People without the highest school diploma should also be able to join. Police officers should earn more money.

The CDU wants to relieve police officers of administrative and secondary tasks and hire more non-sworn staff for that purpose. At the same time, police technology is to be upgraded, including a cyber police unit, dashcams in patrol cars and apps for administrative work.

Police officers do a lot of office work. The CDU wants other staff to take this over. Then officers have more time for their real job. The police should also get better technology. A special unit should fight crime on the internet. Patrol cars should get cameras.

The CDU wants to equip the police in Bremen and Bremerhaven with modern technology, more vehicles and new gear. This includes tasers, dash cams, mobile devices and digital workflows, as well as an online police station reachable by video.

The CDU wants to equip the police better. Officers should get tasers, car cameras and good protective clothing. They should use tablets and smartphones. People should be able to report crimes by video at any time.

The CDU wants to review and amend Bremen's police law. Data protection rules that go beyond the EU's General Data Protection Regulation would be dropped, special control zones brought back and receipts for police checks abolished. The platform justifies this with its trust in the police.

The CDU wants to change the police law in Bremen. Extra-strict data protection rules should go. There should again be special places for police checks. Officers should no longer have to hand out a receipt after a check.

The CDU wants to confront criminal clans with sustained pressure from checks and investigations. Measures include taking away driver's licenses and cars, more asset confiscation, exit programs and the deportation of repeat offenders.

The CDU wants to be tough on criminal clans. Clans here are large families in which some members commit crimes. The police should check them often. The state should take away cars and money from crimes. Serious offenders should have to leave Germany.

The CDU wants to put health and youth protection at the center of drug policy and expand support services. At the same time, police are to break up dealer networks and punish all drug offenses, especially around the train station.

The CDU wants to give more help to people with drug problems. There should be more counseling and therapy. At the same time, the police should be tough on drug dealers. This applies most of all near the train station.

The CDU wants to bring police, prosecutors and youth services together with independent providers in one place. The aim is to fight juvenile crime effectively and stop criminal careers early.

The CDU wants to create a House of Juvenile Justice in Bremen. Police, prosecutors and youth services would work under one roof. Together they would deal with young offenders. This should keep young people from becoming lasting criminals.

The CDU wants to push at the federal level for cyberbullying to become a separate offense in the Criminal Code. Bremen would then equip police and courts so that such acts can be prosecuted.

The CDU wants to make cyberbullying its own crime. Cyberbullying means harassing or insulting others online or by phone. A federal law would have to change for this. Police and courts in Bremen should get enough resources for it.

The CDU wants an immediate program to invest in fire department vehicles, buildings and training and to hire considerably more staff. Emergency personnel are to be protected from attacks, and volunteers in aid organizations given equal legal status.

The CDU wants to spend more money on the fire department. There should be new vehicles, repaired buildings and more staff. Firefighters should reach the scene within 10 minutes at most. The CDU also wants to protect rescue workers from attacks.

The CDU wants offenders to be brought before a court immediately when the evidence is clear, and to provide more staff for this. In the platform's view, long proceedings weaken deterrence and trust in the rule of law. Foreign offenders who are required to leave the country would be deported.

The CDU wants faster criminal trials. If a crime is clearly proven, the offender should see a judge right away. There should be more staff for this. Foreign offenders with no right to stay should return to their home countries.

The CDU wants to keep and strengthen Bremen's State Office for the Protection of the Constitution. Police and the intelligence service would use information in shared databases, and the service would get every intelligence tool permitted in other states.

The CDU wants to strengthen the Verfassungsschutz in Bremen. That is an intelligence service that watches enemies of democracy. It should work more closely with the police and share data. It should be allowed to use more surveillance tools.

The CDU wants to equip disaster response units according to need, modernize their bases and expand the warning system with sirens. Annual drills and a parliamentary study commission on crises are meant to improve preparation for emergencies.

The CDU wants to equip disaster response teams better. There should be more sirens to warn people. Helpers should practice for emergencies every year. A commission in parliament should work out a plan for crises.

The CDU wants to secure energy, water and transport facilities with automated surveillance technology and a coordinated guard plan. The state would also promptly get a cyber defense strategy, with implementation starting in 2023.

The CDU wants to protect important facilities better. These include facilities for power, water, gas and transport. Cameras and motion detectors should watch them. Bremen should also get a plan against attacks from the internet.

The FDP wants to raise police staffing in Bremen from about 2,750 to 3,300 and in Bremerhaven from 490 to 580. Pay is to rise to Hamburg's level, and officers are to be relieved of tasks outside their core work.

The FDP wants more police officers. Bremen should have 3,300 and Bremerhaven 580. They should earn as much as officers in Hamburg. Other offices should take over some tasks from the police.

The FDP wants to fight political extremism regardless of where it comes from. Extremist associations are to be banned, and organizations that work with such groups are to lose public funding.

The FDP wants to act against extremism. Extremism means that groups reject democracy. Such groups should be banned. Anyone who works with them should get no money from the state.

The FDP wants to equip the police with modern hardware, mobile devices, and specialized software and to introduce Tasers in Bremen. Prosecutors' offices and courts are to get more staff and digital technology so that proceedings take less time.

The FDP wants to give the police better computers and phones. The police in Bremen should also get Tasers. Tasers are devices that briefly stun a person with electricity. Courts should also get more staff and technology.

The FDP wants to equip police officers with bodycams and emergency vehicles with dashcams, including fire trucks and ambulances. The cameras are meant to deter attackers and make it easier to solve attacks on emergency personnel.

The FDP wants to protect emergency workers better. Police officers should wear cameras on their bodies. Fire trucks and ambulances should also get cameras. The cameras should scare off attackers.

The FDP wants police in Bremerhaven to keep their Tasers and wants to introduce them in the city of Bremen as well. The platform sees them as a milder option than a firearm.

A Taser is a device that gives an electric shock. Police in Bremerhaven have these devices. The FDP wants them to keep them. Police in the city of Bremen should get Tasers too.

The FDP wants a police force that stays approachable in the neighborhoods and wants to expand online crime reporting. People with disabilities should be able to file reports and make emergency calls without barriers.

Police should be easy to reach in the neighborhoods. People should be able to report crimes online easily. Deaf and blind people should also reach the police well in an emergency. For this, there should be video calls with a chat.

The FDP wants more staff for the Ordnungsamt (public order office) in Bremen and wants checks to take place at night and on Sundays and holidays too. Streets and squares should also be cleaned more often and more trash cans set up, because the platform sees order and cleanliness as shaping quality of life.

The public order office in Bremen should get more staff. It should also do checks at night and on holidays. The city should clean streets and squares more often. There should be more and bigger trash cans.

The FDP wants to make the area around Bremen's main train station safer and cleaner through more checks and more frequent cleaning. At the same time, it supports a permanent drug consumption room near the station so that marginalized groups are not simply pushed elsewhere.

The FDP wants to make the main station in Bremen safer and cleaner. Police and public order staff should do more checks there. People with a drug addiction should get a fixed room with help nearby. Helpers at the station should report damage and dirt.

The FDP wants to better protect children and teenagers from violence and sexual abuse. Reporting offices are to become more visible so that authorities learn of more cases and can act.

The FDP wants to protect children better from violence. Police and youth welfare offices should name fixed contact persons. Everyone should know where to report a suspicion. Police and courts should get more training on this.

The FDP wants to strengthen the rights of crime victims. Because, according to the platform, an especially large share of victim compensation claims fail in the state of Bremen, a research project is to look into the reasons.

The FDP wants to help crime victims more. In Bremen, the authorities reject many claims for compensation. Researchers should find out why. Victims should get more support during court cases.

The FDP wants to do more to prevent crime and to encourage civil courage among the public. Schools, clubs, employers and public campaigns are to teach how to help when a crime happens without putting oneself at risk.

The FDP wants fewer crimes to happen. People should look and help when a crime happens. They should not put themselves in danger. Schools, clubs and employers should teach this.

The FDP wants to push back organized crime through constant checks of relevant venues and businesses. At the same time, a network of agencies and institutions is to help people who want to leave criminal structures.

The FDP wants to act against criminal gangs. Police should check certain bars and shops very often. Other offices should help the police with this. People who want to leave a gang should get help.

The FDP wants to counter places with concentrated crime and use every means available to the state to do so. In weakened neighborhoods, it should be possible to suspend the social housing quota, and unsafe places are to be named openly and improved in a targeted way.

Some areas have a lot of crime. The FDP wants to change that. The city should name these places clearly. There should be more police, more light and more cleaning there. In weak neighborhoods, the duty to build social housing could be paused.

The FDP wants to give fire departments, rescue services and aid organizations lasting support in staff and modern equipment. The state of Bremen is also to meet its responsibilities in disaster response and provide its own resources.

The FDP wants to strengthen the fire service. There should be new fire stations and more staff. Children and teenagers should join the fire service early. The state should give more money for protection in disasters.

The FDP rejects stricter gun laws, which it already considers very strict. Instead, existing rules are to be enforced better.

The FDP does not want stricter rules for guns. It thinks the rules are strict enough already. But offices should check the rules better. They should get more resources for this.

The FDP wants to act against every form of extremism, whether right-wing, left-wing, religious, or nationalist. The platform calls right-wing extremism the greatest danger to democracy, while also demanding tougher action against left-wing extremist crime.

The FDP wants to fight extremism. This applies to right-wing and left-wing extremists. Right-wing extremist groups should be banned. Groups that work with left-wing extremists should get no state money.

The FDP wants to actively combat antisemitism and record antisemitic crimes more precisely. Schools would be required to report antisemitic incidents. Public authorities would stop working with openly anti-Israel or antisemitic organizations.

The FDP wants to fight hatred of Jews. Schools should have to report antisemitic incidents. The police should count such crimes more exactly. Antisemitic groups should get no more state money.

The FDP wants to support projects that prevent Islamist radicalization and help people leave the scene. Mosque congregations that support terrorism should receive no public money. Imams should more often be able to train at state universities.

The FDP wants to prevent Islamism. Schools should teach more about it. Mosques that support terrorism should get no state money. Imams should more often be able to study at German universities.

The FDP wants the state to respond faster to crimes by young people, arguing that this has the strongest educational effect and prevents further offenses. Fast-track proceedings are to be used more often. A "Haus des Jugendrechts" (House of Juvenile Justice) is to be set up in the city of Bremen.

The FDP wants faster proceedings when young people commit crimes. The response should come soon after the offense. Police, prosecutors, and youth services should work together more closely. Bremen should get a House of Juvenile Justice for this.

The FDP wants better staffing for Bremen's prison system so that prisoners can be successfully reintegrated into society. A probation app is to remind convicted people of appointments and court conditions and thus prevent avoidable imprisonment.

The FDP wants more staff in prisons. Prisoners should be able to live without crime after release. An app should remind convicted people of appointments and duties. This way, fewer people should have to go to prison.

The FDP wants to permit pyrotechnics in soccer stadiums under safe conditions. In the program's view, the current strict ban has not made spectators safer. Pilot events with fans, clubs, and the association are planned as a first step.

Fireworks are banned in stadiums today. The FDP wants to allow them, but only with clear rules. The party says the ban has not made stadiums safer. First there should be test events.

The FDP opposes Bremen billing the German Football League for extra policing at high-risk matches. In the program's view, this hurts Werder Bremen competitively and is a step toward privatizing public security.

Some soccer matches need a lot of police. Bremen sends the soccer league a bill for this. The league gets the money back from Werder Bremen. The FDP is against these bills. It says security is the job of the state.

The Greens want public spaces to be safe for everyone. Police, fire services and emergency medical services should have enough personnel and be able to respond quickly. Disaster response should also work reliably when it is needed.

The Greens want safe streets and squares for everyone. Police, fire services and ambulance services should have enough staff. They should arrive quickly when people need them. Disaster response should also work well.

The Greens want to prepare Bremen better for crises such as floods or cyberattacks. A risk analysis is to show where action is needed, and fallback levels are to be defined for critical infrastructure.

The Greens want Bremen to be better prepared for emergencies. These include floods and attacks on computer systems. A study should show where Bremen is weak. Important facilities should keep working in an emergency.

The Greens want to grow Bremen's police force to 2,900 officers by 2025 and keep the police stations in the city's districts. The police are to be easy to reach in person and online, and to patrol more often on foot and by bicycle.

The Greens want more police officers in Bremen. There should be 2,900 by 2025. Police stations in the neighborhoods should stay. More officers should patrol on foot and by bike.

The Greens want to give the police more money for staff wherever new or more complex tasks arise. Backlogged cases are to be cleared, overtime reduced and working conditions improved. Police work is also to become more digital.

The Greens want more money for police staff. This applies where the police get new tasks. Old cases should be handled faster. Officers should have less overtime. The police should get modern technology.

The Greens want regular police patrol units to wear body cameras as a matter of routine. According to the program, the cameras protect officers from attacks and reduce police misconduct. The Greens reject tasers for patrol duty.

The Greens want more body cameras for the police. The cameras should record attacks and police mistakes. The Greens are against tasers on patrol. A taser is a weapon that gives electric shocks.

The Greens want to add staff to the police, the public prosecutor's office and the prison service to fight organized crime. A ban on cash payments for real estate and a register of the actual owners are meant to curb money laundering.

The Greens want more staff to fight organized crime groups. Nobody should be allowed to buy houses with cash. A register should show who really owns a house. This is meant to stop money laundering. Money laundering means: criminals hide where money comes from.

The Greens want better protection against misuse of register information for people who are often threatened because of volunteer work or their job. They should find it easier to block their address in the residents' register and the vehicle register. The program argues that committed people might otherwise withdraw.

Some people are threatened because of their job or volunteer work. The Greens want to protect these people better. Offices should not simply give out their address. Blocking the address should be easier. Flyers should no longer have to show a private address.

The Greens want to step up prosecution of hate and incitement on the internet. To that end, central investigation units, an online police patrol and an expanded online police station are to be created. Those affected are to get independent counseling.

The Greens want to fight online hate more strongly. Special units at the police and prosecutor's office should investigate. The police should also be visible on social networks. Reporting crimes online and by phone should be easier. Victims should get counseling.

The Greens want everyone to be able to turn to the police without fear. A study on structural racism, receipts for every identity check and more diversity among police staff are meant to contribute to this. A dedicated crisis intervention team is planned for people in mental health crises.

The Greens want more trust in the police. A study should look at racism in the police and fire department. Anyone who is checked should always get a receipt stating the reason. The police should become more diverse. There should be a special team for people in a mental crisis.

The Greens want to broaden the Opferanlaufstellengesetz (law on victim contact points), which has provided a right to counseling since 2020. Support organizations are to be allowed to reach out to victims on their own initiative more often. According to the program, many crime victims currently do not seek help out of ignorance or uncertainty.

The Greens want better help for victims of crime. Support services should be allowed to contact victims themselves. Many victims do not get help so far. People who speak little German should also get help.

The Greens want to secure enough staff and better working conditions at the Bremen fire department, which they say is needed more often because of the climate crisis. Plans include a new station in the south of Bremen, newer vehicles for the volunteer fire brigades and better benefits for surviving dependents. Cases of racism and misogyny in the fire department are to be investigated further.

The Greens want enough staff at the fire department. Working there should get better. A new fire station should be built in the south of Bremen. Volunteer fire brigades should get new vehicles. Racism in the fire department should be cleared up.

The Greens want to extend bans on firecrackers and offer public professional fireworks and laser shows instead. This is meant to ease the burden on the fire department and ambulance service on New Year's Eve. The program also cites the environment, health and animal welfare as reasons.

The Greens want to ban firecrackers in more places. Instead there should be public fireworks run by professionals. Laser shows are also planned. Firefighters and paramedics should have fewer call-outs on New Year's Eve. This should also help the environment and animals.

The Greens want to extend the siren network so that all of Bremen and Bremerhaven is covered. They also want authorities to be better prepared for disasters, including power outages and attacks on digital networks.

The Greens want to put up more sirens. People should hear them everywhere in Bremen and Bremerhaven. Authorities should prepare better for emergencies. This includes long power outages.

The Greens want Jewish people in Bremen to live safely and move freely everywhere, including when wearing visible Jewish symbols. To that end, police and prosecutors are to be better trained, responsibilities clarified and prevention expanded.

Jewish people should live safely in Bremen. They should be able to wear their symbols openly. Police and prosecutors should learn more about hatred of Jews. There should be more prevention work.

The Greens want to give the Verfassungsschutz (domestic intelligence service) no new powers and to abolish the current system of paid informants in the area of right-wing extremism. Oversight of the service is to be expanded through an independent commission.

The Verfassungsschutz is a domestic intelligence service. The Greens do not want to give it new powers. Paid informants in the far-right scene should no longer exist in this form. An independent body should check the service more closely.

The Greens want to increase staffing for the Ordnungsdienst (municipal public order service) and for traffic enforcement. Around Bremen's main station, the quality of public space and the sense of safety are to improve again, including through safe spaces for staying and for drug consumption.

The Greens want more staff for the public order service. Traffic enforcement should also get more jobs. People should feel safe again at the main station. There should be safe rooms to stay in.

The Greens want to remove minor offenses from criminal law so that courts and prosecutors can focus on what the party sees as more important matters. This includes riding without a ticket, dumpster diving and unlawful residence; cannabis is to be sold in a state-controlled market.

The Greens want to stop punishing small offenses. Riding without a ticket should no longer be a crime. People who cannot pay a fine should not go to prison. They should get debt counseling. Cannabis should be sold in a market the state controls.

The Greens reject remote searches of devices, state trojans and biometric surveillance systems. Existing video surveillance is to be reviewed for effectiveness, cost and proportionality.

The Greens do not want state trojans. These are programs the state uses to read phones in secret. They also reject surveillance with face recognition. They want to check whether video surveillance works.

The Greens want to introduce a state rehabilitation law to improve the prospects of people released from prison and prevent reoffending. This comes with digital access for prisoners, more open custody, and better addiction and health care in prison.

The Greens want a new law for the time after prison. It should help people not to commit crimes again. Prisoners should be able to use the internet and e-mail under supervision. Prisons should offer better help with addiction.

The Greens call for a plan to better protect houses of worship in Bremen and Bremerhaven and to raise awareness among security agencies and the judiciary. They want to fight antisemitism, make Jewish culture more visible and keep supporting exchange between religions.

Churches, mosques and synagogues should be better protected. The Greens want a plan for this. Police and courts should pay more attention to the issue. The party wants to support Jewish life in Bremen. Talks between religions should also keep getting money.

The Greens want to put more money and staff into cleaning, security, and on-site contact persons around Bremen's main train station. Targeted checks are meant to curb drug dealing. The station is to become a transit hub where people like to spend time.

The Greens want to improve the area around Bremen's main station. More staff should work there on cleaning and safety. Checks should reduce drug dealing. Everyone should feel safe there.

The Greens want to pursue their freedom of assembly law, which they call the most liberal in Germany. Conditions and bans on demonstrations are to be the exception, and police are to be allowed to film less. Covering one's face at a protest would no longer be a crime but an administrative offense.

The Greens want a new law for protests. Bans and conditions should be rare. Police should film less. Some people cover their face at protests. That should no longer be a crime, only a minor offense.

The Greens want police protection dogs to be kept permanently out of rallies and large events. Their use there is currently suspended for the time being. The platform cites the stress on the animals and an unnecessary risk to demonstrators.

The police in Bremen have protection dogs. Right now they do not use the dogs at protests. The Greens want it to stay that way. The dogs have a lot of stress there. The dogs are a risk for people at the protest.

The Left wants to abolish the designated danger zones in which police may carry out checks without specific suspicion. It justifies this by pointing to racial profiling, meaning checks based on appearance.

In some areas, the police may check anyone without a reason. The Left wants to abolish these areas. It says the police check people with dark skin more often. That should stop.

The Left calls for a state strategy against far-right violence involving all government departments. It also wants a central reporting office and a specialized prosecutor's office for hate speech, plus permanently funded education and counseling projects.

The Left wants a state plan against far-right violence. Victims of online hate should be able to turn to one central office. A special prosecutor's office should pursue such cases. Projects against hatred of Jews and racism should get lasting funding.

The Left wants community-oriented police with modern equipment and enough staff, arguing that safety must not depend on income. It also holds a concept of security that includes prevention and social justice.

The police should have enough staff and good equipment. Bremen should train more officers. Overtime should be paid out soon. There should be fewer weapons in private homes.

The Left opposes more video surveillance without specific cause, state spyware and wider use of tasers. Independent bodies, rather than fellow officers, should investigate police officers.

The Left does not want more cameras without a reason. The state should not secretly break into computers. When police officers make mistakes, an independent body should investigate. Experts should be present when people are in a mental crisis.

The Left calls for dissolving the Verfassungsschutz (domestic intelligence agency). It argues that preventing danger and fighting terrorism are police tasks and that the agency has repeatedly put protecting its sources above people's safety.

The Verfassungsschutz is a domestic intelligence agency. The Left wants to abolish it. It says the police can do these tasks. Until then, the law for the agency should become stricter.

The Left wants to make deradicalization and prevention programs addressing Islamism permanent and expand them. The same approach is to apply to evangelical groups whose work the party describes as sexist and anti-queer.

The Left wants more programs against religious extremism. Teachers should get help from civil-society groups. This applies to Islamism and to strict Christian groups. Such groups should get no public money.

The Left wants to staff the professional fire service so that it meets its targets for emergency medical response and firefighting. Volunteer fire brigades, disaster protection, the public order service, and citizen service offices are also to get more funding or staff.

The Left wants more staff for the fire service. Firefighters should arrive fast enough. The public order service should get more jobs too. City offices should work faster.

The Left wants courts and prosecutors staffed well enough for cases to move quickly. At the same time, support for crime victims, victim-offender mediation, and programs to avoid imprisonment are to be expanded.

The Left wants faster court cases. Courts should have enough staff for that. Victims of crime should get more advice and help. There should also be more ways to avoid prison.

The Left wants to abolish Ersatzfreiheitsstrafen, meaning jail time for people who cannot pay a fine. The program calls them socially unjust and expensive. Offenses such as blasphemy are also to be removed from the criminal code.

Some people cannot pay a fine. Today they must go to jail instead. The Left wants to end that. Blasphemy should also no longer be a crime.

The Left wants to pay inmates the minimum wage for their work and give them pension credits for it. Education, counseling, and therapy in prison are to be expanded to prevent reoffending.

Many prisoners work in prison. The Left wants to pay them the minimum wage. They should also earn pension rights. Young prisoners should find it easier to finish school.

The SPD wants to raise the staffing targets for the police to 3,100 full-time positions in Bremen and 580 in Bremerhaven. The public order service is to have 120 full-time positions. The program argues that feeling safe is part of living in a good neighborhood.

The SPD wants more police officers. Bremen should have 3,100 full-time positions. Bremerhaven should have 580. The public order service should get 120 positions. It should act against litter and run-down buildings.

Together with the Beiräte (district councils), the SPD wants to identify places where people feel unsafe and upgrade them. Awareness teams at busy locations are to be deployed and funded permanently.

In some places in the city, people feel afraid. The SPD wants to find these places and make them nicer. Awareness teams should help at busy places. These are trained people who watch out and support others. The SPD wants to pay for these teams permanently.

The SPD wants to respond to the drug scene around Bremen's main station with more enforcement officers, more social and medical services and more frequent cleaning. To prevent an uncontrolled shift into neighboring areas, it supports creating a designated tolerated location (Akzeptanzort).

There is a drug scene at Bremen's main station. The SPD says people with addiction need help. There will be more help and more doctors. But there will also be more enforcement officers. The scene should get its own place where it is tolerated.

The SPD wants to expand the Institute for Police and Security Research with additional funding and set up an innovation center for security agencies. The Hochschule für öffentliche Verwaltung (college of public administration) is to be placed under the interior department and made more capable.

The SPD wants more research on security. A research institute for the police should get more money. A new center should bring new technology to the police quickly. The college that trains police officers should belong to the interior department.

The SPD wants more uniformed officers on the street, including 120 secured positions for neighborhood contact officers in the medium term. Municipal inspections are to be concentrated at the Ordnungsamt (public order office), and the enforcement service is to get bodycams.

The SPD wants more police on the street. There should be 120 jobs for neighborhood contact officers. The public order office should handle many inspections on its own. The enforcement service should wear bodycams. These are small cameras on clothing. The SPD does not tolerate violence against emergency workers.

The SPD wants to make tasers available to all operational police units in Bremen and Bremerhaven. It also plans to amend the police law to broaden officers' powers of intervention. The platform justifies this with rising violence against emergency personnel.

The SPD wants more tasers for the police. A taser is a gun that gives electric shocks. All officers on duty should be able to use one. The police should also get more powers. The SPD says attacks on officers are increasing.

The SPD wants to implement the new fire protection requirements plan and invest in equipment and vehicles for the fire departments. The volunteer fire departments are to be reorganized under a structural plan and get up-to-date stations in every district.

The SPD wants to equip the fire service better. There should be new vehicles and new technology. Volunteer fire departments should also get modern buildings. Money for this should be provided every year.

The SPD wants to realign disaster protection in the state of Bremen and equip it better. It cites the pandemic, the war against Ukraine and so-called hybrid threats as reasons. The rescue service is to be organized as a special fund.

The SPD wants better protection in disasters. There should be more sirens in Bremen and Bremerhaven. Helpers should get good training. The rescue service should be reorganized. The SPD gives the pandemic and the war in Ukraine as reasons.

The SPD stands by the state Office for the Protection of the Constitution (domestic intelligence agency) and wants to equip it adequately. The platform sees right-wing extremism as the greatest danger to democracy. Extremism of every kind is to be met with firmness and with prevention.

The SPD wants to keep and strengthen the domestic intelligence agency. This agency watches enemies of democracy. The SPD sees right-wing extremists as the biggest danger. It wants to act firmly against all extremists. There should also be help for people to leave extremism.

The SPD wants to set up a separate cybercrime division within the State Criminal Police Office and expand cyber defense with additional positions. Police officers are also to be visibly present on social networks.

The SPD wants to do more against crime on the internet. The criminal police should get its own unit for this. Officers should also be reachable online. People should be able to report crimes more easily online or by phone.

The SPD wants to secure the ports better against drug trafficking and continue investigations into organized crime, including clan crime. One focus is on confiscating illegally acquired assets, including real estate and luxury goods.

The SPD wants to make the ports safer. Drugs should not come into the country through the ports. The police should keep investigating criminal gangs. The state should take money and houses away from criminals.

The SPD wants to act against offers that foster addiction and reorganize gambling supervision. It plans advertising bans for sports betting and stricter rules for gambling halls and their locations.

The SPD wants stricter rules for gambling. Ads for sports betting should be banned. Gambling halls should face tougher rules. The state should fight illegal gambling better. This is meant to keep people from becoming addicted.

The SPD wants to use the federal government's announced legalization of cannabis to review procedures at the police, prosecutors and courts, and to step up prevention of drug abuse. It calls for higher fines for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

The federal government wants to allow cannabis. The SPD then wants to do more against drug abuse. People who drive drunk or on drugs should pay higher fines. People who do it repeatedly should lose their license.

The SPD wants crime victims to get help quickly and without red tape and will keep funding victim support organizations. It wants to continue the fight against sexual violence toward children and young people with more prevention and better investigative technology.

The SPD wants to help crime victims better. Support groups should keep getting money. There should be more advice on compensation. The police should do more against sexual violence toward children. They will get modern software for this.

The SPD wants to continue the complete renovation of Bremen's prison (JVA), under way since 2007. According to the platform, this is the only way to improve the condition of the buildings for inmates and staff and to secure a prison system geared toward rehabilitation.

The SPD wants to keep renovating the prison in Bremen. The buildings are very old. They date from 1874. The work will take about ten more years. The prison should also produce its own power from sun and wind.

The SPD wants to make a staffing level of 260 in the general prison service binding and train recruits to reach it. It also wants to bring prison officers' civil-service status closer to that of police, firefighters and customs. The platform cites rising inmate numbers and the goal of rehabilitation.

The SPD wants more staff in the prison. 260 people should work in the prison service. The SPD wants to train new people for this. The job should also get more recognition. The SPD says there are more inmates and many have mental health problems.

The SPD wants to keep literacy and German courses for prisoners and give them access to digital media in the future. It points to the legal mandate to prepare inmates for a life without crime.

Prisoners should be able to learn in prison. Courses in reading, writing and German should continue. Prisoners should also be able to use the internet. This should help them later in life outside.

The SPD wants to avoid imprisonment for unpaid fines as far as possible. At the federal level, it wants riding without a ticket to be neither a crime nor an administrative offense. In the platform's view, this kind of detention mostly hits people without means, has no effect and causes high costs.

Some people cannot pay a fine. Then they have to go to prison. The SPD wants to prevent that where possible. Riding without a ticket should no longer be a crime. An app should remind people of appointments and payments.

The SPD wants to actively use the cross-departmental "Aktionsplan Hauptbahnhof" (central station action plan) so that the station, in its view, again becomes a good place for everyone. Spaces near the station are to be created for the groups that gather there.

Many groups meet at the central station. Some people feel disturbed there. The SPD wants to weigh everyone's interests. It uses the central station action plan for that. Nearby there should be places where people can stay.

The SPD wants to involve people in Bremen and Bremerhaven in the medium-term strategic direction of the police. They should be able to say what they expect of the police. At the same time, the aim is to build more understanding for security work.

People in Bremen should have a say about the police. They should say what they expect of the police. The SPD wants to set up a process for this. District councils and citizens' forums should work together on it.