What do the parties in Rhineland-Palatinate say on public safety?

The AfD wants to expand the state police from 9,148 to 10,000 full-time positions and relieve officers of administrative work. The platform cites more than a million hours of overtime and the goal of improving security.

The AfD wants more police officers in the state. There would be 10,000 full-time positions. Today there are 9,148. Officers would do less office work. That way they have more time to protect people.

The AfD wants to renovate the state police academy (Hochschule der Polizei) at Hahn Airport and add modern training facilities. The platform describes most of the buildings as being in very poor condition and sees good training as a contribution to public safety.

Police officers train at their own academy at Hahn Airport. The AfD says the buildings are in bad shape. The party wants to renovate them. It also wants a new center for operations training.

The AfD calls for a firm approach to crime with more police presence and expanded powers to intervene against suspects. Prevention would be strengthened at the same time. The platform points to higher figures for violent and sexual offenses in 2024.

The AfD wants to be strict with criminals. More police officers would be on streets and squares. The police would get more powers against suspects. The party also wants more work to prevent crime.

The AfD wants a study of unreported crime to be carried out every three years. Because police crime statistics only show offenses that became known, the study is meant to complete the picture and allow police to be deployed in a targeted way.

Many crimes are never reported to the police. The AfD wants a study on this every three years. Victims would be asked questions for it. This should help the police plan better.

The AfD wants to make police service more attractive through higher pay, allowances that count toward pensions, and optional free health care provided by the state (freie Heilfürsorge). The aim is for fewer officers to move to the federal police or neighboring states and to reach the planned staffing level sooner.

The AfD wants to pay police officers more. Allowances would also count toward their pension. Officers could choose free health care paid by the state. This should keep more officers in the state.

The AfD wants the origin of suspects to be named publicly and dual citizenship to be recorded in police crime statistics. In the platform's view, the current picture is distorted because dual citizens are counted only as Germans.

The AfD wants to name publicly where suspects come from. Police statistics would count people with two passports separately. So far they count only as Germans. The party says this is the only way to get a full picture.

Following Bavaria's example, the AfD wants to create a state border police force and monitor the borders with France, Luxembourg and Belgium, for instance with drones. The platform justifies this with cross-border crime such as the blowing up of ATMs.

Rhineland-Palatinate borders France, Luxembourg and Belgium. The AfD wants to set up its own border police. Bavaria already has one. Drones would also watch the border. This is meant to help against gangs from abroad.

The AfD wants to improve training and equipment for volunteer and professional fire departments and expand the state fire and disaster protection academy in Koblenz. The platform considers investment in buildings and technology necessary to prepare emergency personnel well.

The AfD wants better equipment for fire departments. The fire academy in Koblenz would get a new building. Volunteer fire departments would get vehicles for rough ground and floods. Professional firefighters could choose free health care paid by the state.

The AfD wants to make working in prisons more attractive. Staff would get personal protective gear, could choose free state health care instead of the civil-servant subsidy scheme, and the so-called Gitterzulage (prison service allowance) would again count toward pensions. The program cites many vacant positions and rising violence in prisons.

The AfD wants to improve jobs in prisons. Every staff member should get their own protective gear. An extra payment should also count for the pension later. The party says many jobs are unfilled and the work has become more dangerous.

The AfD wants the protection of crime victims to take priority over the protection of offenders. Victims and their relatives would get better support, and offenders would be treated more strictly. For convicted foreign offenders, the thresholds for expulsion and deportation would be lowered sharply.

The AfD wants to protect and support crime victims better. It wants to be stricter with offenders. Foreigners who were convicted should be easier to deport. Criminals should not get a German passport.

The AfD rejects tighter gun laws and wants to keep today's rules. In its view, the danger usually comes from illegally obtained weapons, not registered ones. It wants to respond with tougher penalties for illegal gun possession and for using firearms in crimes.

The AfD does not want stricter gun laws. It says illegal guns are the main danger. People who own a gun illegally should get harsher punishment. Hunters and other legal owners should be able to keep their guns.

The AfD wants violence and threats against staff in hospitals, practices and ambulance services to be punished consistently. At the same time, it wants to promote respectful behavior among the public.

Many workers in hospitals and doctors' offices experience violence. Ambulance crews are affected too. The AfD wants offenders to be punished strictly. It also wants to promote more respect.

The CDU wants to keep police hiring permanently high, improve pay and raise allowances to the federal level. Officers are to be relieved of administrative work and be more present across the state.

The CDU wants to hire more police officers. Officers should earn more money. They should do less office work. Then more officers are out on the street. Equipment should get better too.

The CDU wants to introduce AI-supported video surveillance at crime hot spots and use body cams and electronic ankle monitors more often. It also backs temporary storage of IP addresses and the use of road toll data in criminal investigations.

The CDU wants more cameras at dangerous places. Computer programs should analyze the images. Officers should wear body cameras more often. Internet addresses should be stored for a while. The CDU wants to find offenders faster this way.

The CDU wants to drop the requirement for police officers to wear identification and justifies this with trust in the officers. Attacks on emergency personnel are to be prosecuted consistently and punished noticeably.

Police officers must wear an ID marking today. The CDU wants to end this rule. It says it trusts the officers. People who attack emergency workers should face clear punishment.

The CDU wants to speed up criminal proceedings considerably and give the justice system more staff and digital technology. Protecting victims is to take priority, with more prison places, victim support and funding for women's shelters.

Criminal cases should move faster. The CDU wants to hire more judges. Courts should work digitally. There should be more places in prison. Victims should get more help.

The CDU wants to act against extremism of every kind, link security agencies more closely and set up a state security council. Islamist threats are to be monitored and deported, the domestic intelligence service strengthened, and data matched automatically between agencies.

The CDU wants to fight extremism. This covers right-wing, left-wing and religious extremism. Dangerous Islamists should have to leave the country. The domestic intelligence service should get more staff. Agencies should be allowed to compare their data automatically.

The CDU wants to expand fire and disaster protection with more staff, more money for municipalities and a statewide warning system. State-specific rules for fire trucks would be dropped. Long-serving volunteer firefighters would receive cash bonuses.

The CDU wants stronger fire services and disaster protection. Towns and counties would get more money for this. There would be a warning system for floods and crises. People who serve a long time in the fire service would get a bonus.

The CDU wants to upgrade municipal enforcement officers with a uniform job profile and new training, so they are more visible in public and relieve the police. This would be combined with better lighting, AI-assisted video surveillance at crime hotspots and more officers on the streets.

The CDU wants stronger local enforcement officers in towns and cities. Their training should be the same across the state. Dangerous places would get cameras with AI. AI means artificial intelligence. More officers would be out on the streets.

The CDU wants offenders who commit violence against women, children or young people to be fitted with electronic ankle monitors, closely supervised and punished firmly. At the same time there are to be more places in women's shelters and faster help.

The CDU wants to protect women and children better from violence. Offenders will wear an ankle monitor. That is a device on the leg that reports where a person is. There will also be more places in women's shelters.

The Greens want more police officers in the long run and better working conditions in the force. At the same time, the police are to become more diverse, with more people with a migration background and more women in leadership. Buildings are to be renovated under an overall plan.

The Greens want more police officers in the state. Working for the police should get better. More women should become leaders. More people with a migration background should join the police. Old police buildings should be renovated.

The Greens want to scrap or fundamentally revise police powers they consider useless, including remote searches of devices. People who are stopped should get a receipt, and bodycams should be switched on by default during operations. Electronic ankle monitors are to be used on the Spanish model against femicides.

The Greens want to remove or change some police powers. One example is secretly searching computers. People who are stopped should get a receipt. Police body cameras should always be on during operations. Violent offenders should wear an electronic ankle monitor.

The Greens want to build a system to detect and counter drones and to better protect critical infrastructure. Organized crime and environmental crime are to be fought more intensively. The domestic intelligence service is to become more capable while remaining under clear democratic oversight.

The Greens want to detect and stop drones better. Important facilities like power grids should be better protected. Agencies should work together more closely, also across borders. The domestic intelligence service should be stronger and well controlled. Local enforcement officers should not get tasers.

The Greens want to expand open prisons so that jail terms served in place of unpaid fines can also be carried out there. Education, therapy and help finding housing are meant to prevent reoffending. On youth crime, the platform relies on educational approaches and prevention.

The Greens want more open prisons. Inmates there have more freedom than in a regular prison. Inmates should get education and therapy. That way they should not commit crimes again later. For young offenders, education should come first.

The Greens want to further strengthen fire and disaster protection, with statewide uniform standards, a law on dispatch centers and more full-time support for volunteers. Critical infrastructure is to be protected through joint risk and crisis management. The public is to be better prepared for emergencies.

The Greens want the state to be better prepared for disasters. Fire departments should be equally well equipped everywhere. Volunteers should get more help from paid staff. Students should practice with the fire department. In an emergency, there should be information in many languages.

The SPD wants to hire up to 500 police trainees a year so that more than 10,500 officers serve in the state in the coming years. Training, working conditions and diversity in the police are also to be developed further.

The SPD wants to hire more police officers. Up to 500 new people should start training each year. Soon the state should have over 10,500 officers. More women should become leaders in the police.

The SPD wants to keep equipping the police with modern protective gear, new stun devices and body cameras, and to renew the vehicle fleet. Police stations are also to be modernized and new training centers built.

The SPD wants to give the police better gear. This includes protective clothing, new stun devices and body cameras. Cars, helicopters and boats will also be renewed. Police stations will be modernized.

The SPD plans a digitization package for the police to improve data evaluation and analysis and to test the use of artificial intelligence. An innovation lab is to develop new digital tools and put them into practice.

The SPD wants to make the police more digital. The police should be able to analyze data better. They should also test and use artificial intelligence. A new lab will develop software for this.

The SPD wants the police to be more visible in neighborhoods and villages and to raise the Bezirksdienst (neighborhood policing service) to more than 410 officers. Urban safety is to be shaped jointly with municipalities, public order services and urban planners, and crime prevention is to be expanded.

The SPD wants more police in neighborhoods and villages. People should find it easier to talk to the police. Police and towns should work together more closely. There should be more work to prevent crime.

The SPD wants to enable the police as quickly as possible to detect and counter drones. This is meant to prepare them for hybrid threats such as cyberattacks, espionage and attacks on buildings.

The SPD wants the police to be able to spot and stop drones. This should happen quickly. The police need new technology for it. They also need new experts.

The SPD wants to revise the state's police law again. The next amendment is to examine AI-supported video surveillance and after-the-fact biometric image recognition; the party wants to introduce automated data analysis while keeping control over the data.

The SPD wants to change the law for the police. It will look at video surveillance with artificial intelligence. It will also look at letting computers recognize faces in images afterward. Computers should analyze police data automatically.

The SPD wants to act against every form of extremism, using all legal options available to the security authorities and the Verfassungsschutz (domestic intelligence service). It sees right-wing extremism as the greatest danger, followed by Islamism; prevention is to be expanded at the same time.

The SPD wants to fight extremism. It sees the biggest danger in right-wing extremists. Islamists also worry the party. The police should be more active online. Young people should learn to spot hate on the internet.

The SPD wants to give the state's Verfassungsschutz (domestic intelligence agency) better staffing, organization, legal powers and technology. Police are also to identify potentially dangerous individuals earlier, including where there are signs of mental health problems.

The SPD wants to strengthen the Verfassungsschutz. This is an agency that watches for threats to democracy. The police should also spot dangerous people earlier.

The SPD wants to better protect women who have suffered domestic or sexual violence. Police and the judiciary are to be trained for this, and electronic ankle monitoring based on the Spanish model is to be put in place.

The SPD wants to protect women better from violence. Police and courts should get special training. Violent offenders should wear an electronic ankle monitor. The device shows where the offender is.

The SPD wants to keep offenses such as tax evasion, money laundering and corruption a priority and to pool police investigative expertise for them. Against youth crime, it relies on the Häuser des Jugendrechts (joint juvenile justice centers).

The SPD wants to fight white-collar crime harder. This includes tax fraud, money laundering and corruption. Police should get better at investigating it. Juvenile justice centers should help against youth crime. Police, courts and social workers work together there.

The SPD wants to expand the state office for fire and disaster protection into a training and competence center with around 300 employees. Training capacity for emergency personnel is to grow considerably.

The SPD wants to enlarge the state office for fire and disaster protection. About 300 people should work there. More emergency workers should be able to learn and practice there.

The SPD wants to keep supporting municipalities financially in civil protection and to continue flat-rate funding for fire departments. Sirens, emergency contact points and volunteering in the fire service are to be expanded.

The SPD wants to keep giving money to local fire departments. There should be more sirens. There should be places everywhere where people can go in an emergency. More people should volunteer as firefighters, especially women and girls.

The SPD wants to prevent attacks on police, firefighters, paramedics and other emergency personnel and to promote respect for them. Where needed, it would back federal-level initiatives for tougher sentences.

The SPD wants to protect police, firefighters and paramedics from attacks. Action days should teach young people respect. If needed, the SPD will support tougher punishment for attackers.

The SPD wants to keep prosecuting hate crime on the street and online as a priority of its justice policy. Victims of violence are to get more rights in criminal proceedings and more counseling services.

The SPD wants to punish hate and incitement quickly. This applies on the street and online. Special prosecutors' offices should handle it. Victims of violence should get more rights and more counseling.

The SPD wants a prison system aimed at reintegration and plans to strengthen staff, buildings and transition management for this. Community service is to replace more jail terms served for unpaid fines, and psychiatric care for prisoners is to improve.

The SPD wants to modernize prisons. Prisoners should be able to live well in society again later. People who cannot pay a fine often go to jail. Instead, there should be more community service. Prisoners with mental illness should get better help.