What do the parties in Saarland say on public safety?

The AfD calls for occasional, incident-based checks and random stop-and-search operations at Saarland's borders with neighboring countries. The state would also set up its own border police. The platform justifies this with public safety and cites the import of illegal drugs as an example.

The AfD wants checks at Saarland's borders. Police should be able to check people there without a specific suspicion. Saarland should get its own border police. One reason is drug smuggling.

The AfD wants to hire more police officers in Saarland and improve their pay and health coverage. It points to rising violence against officers and to the state's duty of care as their employer. Police work should also receive more public recognition.

The AfD wants more police officers in Saarland. Officers should be paid better. The state should cover their medical costs if they choose this. The AfD says there is more violence against the police.

The AfD wants to give professional firefighters better pay and health coverage and allow faster promotions. Volunteer service in the Freiwillige Feuerwehr (volunteer fire department) should become more attractive, including through pension credits. The platform calls fire departments an important part of public services.

The AfD wants to pay firefighters better. They should be promoted faster. Volunteers in the fire department should get a higher pension for it. Students should learn about the volunteer fire department in class.

The AfD wants to create a uniform job profile for municipal public order services and statewide standard training lasting at least two years. Equipment and allowances would be standardized and brought closer to those of the police. The platform describes the situation of these services as precarious and calls for more funding for municipalities.

Public order services work for cities and towns. The AfD wants their training to be the same everywhere. Training should last at least two years. Equipment should also be the same everywhere. Towns should get more money for this.

The AfD wants the state's domestic intelligence agency (Verfassungsschutz) to focus more on "Antifa" and wants all state funding for left-wing extremist groups stopped. The agency should be moved out of the interior ministry and become an independent authority.

The AfD wants to do more against left-wing extremism. The state intelligence agency should watch "Antifa" more closely. This agency watches for threats to democracy. It should no longer be part of the interior ministry. Left-wing extremist groups should get no state money.

The AfD wants to expand the police crime statistics. They should show knives as a weapon, the nationality of offenders, dual citizenship, and attacks on police officers, because the party believes the statistics otherwise give an incomplete picture.

The police keep statistics on crime. The AfD wants to expand them. They should show the nationality of offenders. They should also count crimes with knives. Attacks on police officers should be listed too.

The AfD wants businesses that release employees for disaster relief operations and training to be compensated for the full amount of their lost revenue. This is meant to reduce disadvantages volunteers face in hiring and at work.

Many people volunteer for fire and disaster services. Their employers must let them go for missions. The employers lose money because of this. The AfD wants the state to cover this loss fully. Volunteers should then have no problems at work.

The CDU wants to align police pay and allowances with other states, speed up promotions, and hire 150 trainees every year. The job is to become more attractive, among other things through less overtime and modern equipment.

The CDU wants to pay police officers better. Young officers should move up faster. Each year, 150 new officers should start. The police should get good equipment. There should be less overtime.

The CDU wants to hire about 170 more non-civil-servant employees to relieve police officers of administrative work. The police and municipal public order services are to get broader powers and better training.

Police officers do a lot of office work. The CDU wants to hire about 170 other workers for that. The public order services should get more staff. They should also be allowed to do more. Then officers have more time for their main tasks.

The CDU wants to organize the police so that up to 1,000 officers can be deployed across the state. Security partnerships with municipalities are to be expanded. A new program is meant to push burglary down further.

The CDU wants more police officers on the streets and in towns. Up to 1,000 officers should work close to the people. The state and towns should work together on safety. A new program should prevent burglaries.

The CDU considers video surveillance of public places in Saarland, which the platform calls "video protection," a proven tool. Existing sites are to be reviewed regularly. At the same time, the party wants ongoing checks on whether more crime hotspots should be added.

Some places in Saarland have police video cameras. The CDU thinks this is good. It wants to check these places regularly. It also wants to see if cameras make sense in more places.

The CDU wants to tackle digital and organized crime and online hate with more staff, technology and new surveillance powers. It calls for a real-name requirement on social networks and unencrypted data for investigators. The platform ranks security above data protection.

Many crimes happen online today. The CDU wants people to use their real names on social networks. The networks should give police data without encryption. The CDU says: Safety matters more than data privacy.

The CDU wants entries in the certificate of good conduct for serious sexual offenses against children to no longer be deleted automatically. Internet providers are to store traffic data to the full extent the law allows. The specialized police unit is to get more staff and technology.

The CDU wants to protect children better from sexual violence. Records of such serious crimes should stay in the conduct certificate forever. Internet companies should store connection data as long as the law allows. The police should get more staff and technology for this.

The CDU wants to continue public education on bias-motivated crime and examine whether such offenses, especially against LGBTI people, should be recorded more precisely in crime statistics. Police and justice staff are to receive further training.

Some people are attacked out of hate, for example gay, lesbian or trans people. The CDU wants to count such crimes more exactly. It is looking into this. Police and courts should learn more about it.

The CDU wants to give the state more powers to intervene in the fight against crime. It explicitly includes legally compliant retention of telecommunications traffic data, arguing that offenders in the digital sphere cannot otherwise be identified.

The CDU wants the state to be allowed to store connection data. This is data about who contacted whom online and when. It should help police find offenders on the internet. The storage must follow the law.

The CDU wants to keep adding staff to Saarland's Verfassungsschutz (domestic intelligence service) and fund modern equipment for it. It sees the agency, alongside the police, as a guarantor of security in the state.

The CDU wants to strengthen the Verfassungsschutz in Saarland. This is an agency that watches enemies of democracy. It should get more staff. It should also get better equipment.

The CDU wants to turn the special cybercrime department at the Saarbrücken public prosecutor's office into an interdisciplinary investigative unit. Alongside lawyers, it is to employ business and IT specialists so that authorities can keep pace with online crime.

The CDU wants to pursue internet crime more effectively. The prosecutor's office already has a department for this. This department should grow. Experts for computers and business should also work there.

The CDU wants to consistently confiscate assets obtained through crime. To that end, an interdisciplinary special unit is to be set up at the public prosecutor's office to secure such assets early and later liquidate them.

The CDU says crime must not pay. The state should take illegal money away from offenders. A new unit at the prosecutor's office should do this. It should secure the money quickly.

The CDU wants to promote alternatives to prison, especially for people jailed because they cannot pay a fine. This is meant to save costs and prison capacity and improve the chances of rehabilitation.

Some people cannot pay their fine. Then they often have to go to prison. The CDU wants to avoid this more often. These people should do community work instead. This saves money and helps them.

The CDU wants to establish Häuser des Jugendrechts (Houses of Juvenile Justice) across Saarland. There, prosecutors, police, youth welfare services and other agencies work together on cases of young offenders in order to respond early and in a way tailored to each case.

The CDU wants Houses of Juvenile Justice all over Saarland. Police, prosecutors and youth welfare offices work together there. They deal with young people who have committed crimes. The young people should get a quick penalty and also help.

The CDU wants to organize disaster and civil protection in Saarland under one roof and equip it better. It cites the 2021 floods as the reason. Volunteer responders are to receive more support and financial compensation.

The CDU wants to improve protection in disasters. Responsibilities should be brought together. There should be more money for equipment and staff. The state fire service school should be rebuilt. Volunteers should get money for their expenses.

The CDU wants to strengthen cooperation between security agencies and neighboring countries to fight crime that exploits open Schengen borders. It will examine setting up an international police post in the tri-border area.

Borders in Europe are open. Some criminals take advantage of that. So the CDU wants police to work more closely with neighboring countries. It is looking into a shared police station in the tri-border area. That is where Germany, France and Luxembourg meet.

The SPD wants online casino games in Saarland to be offered only by state-owned companies. Part of the gambling revenue is to go to prevention, counseling and research, and the party wants to crack down on illegal gambling.

The SPD wants only the state to run online casinos. Private companies should not get a license for this. Part of the gambling money should help fight gambling addiction. The SPD wants to fight illegal gambling.

The SPD wants people to feel safer in their neighborhoods and in public spaces. To achieve this, it relies mainly on visible local policing and on well-functioning municipal public order services.

The SPD wants people to feel safe where they live. More police should be visible in towns. Towns should have a good public order service. It should take care of order and cleanliness.

The SPD wants to act against extremism and currently sees right-wing extremism as the greatest threat to democracy. It plans a task force at the domestic intelligence service for online hate, an action plan against racism and antisemitism, and more deradicalization work.

The SPD wants to fight hate and extremism. A new team is to be set up at the domestic intelligence service. It should track down hate speech online. There should be a plan against racism and hatred of Jews. Memorial sites should keep getting money.

The SPD wants to give police and prosecutors better technology, organization and staffing to pursue money laundering, cybercrime and hate offenses online. Proceeds of crime are to be confiscated consistently. A digital reporting office is to be set up for people targeted by online hate.

The SPD wants to prosecute crime on the internet more firmly. Police and prosecutors would get more staff and technology. The state would take away money that comes from crime. People who face hate online could report it online.

The SPD wants to raise police recruitment so that at least 2,900 officers are on duty again within ten years. Every municipality is to keep a police station. Pay, pensions and allowances are to rise to make the job more attractive.

The SPD wants to hire more police officers. In ten years there should again be at least 2,900. Every town should keep a police station. Police officers should earn more. Training should also get better.

The SPD considers video surveillance appropriate at crime hot spots and in cases of specific threats but rejects blanket surveillance. It relies instead on a visible presence of the security authorities. The police law and the law on police data processing are to be reorganized.

The SPD wants cameras only in dangerous places. It is against cameras everywhere. Police should be present on the ground instead. The laws for the police should become clearer. One law would cover police powers, another data protection.

The SPD wants to fight cross-border crime through closer cooperation with French and Luxembourg police rather than additional border checks. The Federal Police in Saarland is to gain staff. A new Federal Police authority in the state is to advance networking with neighboring countries.

The SPD wants to fight crime across borders. The police should work more closely with France and Luxembourg. The SPD does not want more checks at the border. The Federal Police in Saarland would get more staff.

The SPD wants to strengthen the Verfassungsschutz (domestic intelligence agency) in staff and structure because it sees a growing threat from enemies of democracy. The tools of police and intelligence are to remain proportionate. At the same time, municipal crime prevention networks are to be set up statewide.

The SPD wants to strengthen the Verfassungsschutz. This agency watches enemies of democracy. It would get more staff. Citizens' rights should stay protected. Towns would get networks that help prevent crime.

The SPD wants volunteers in aid organizations such as the Red Cross (DRK), ASB and DLRG to get the same time off for training and deployments as fire brigade and THW members. The law on fire protection, technical assistance and disaster control is to be reformed soon. Emergency responders are to be better protected from attacks.

The SPD wants better conditions for volunteers in aid services. They should get time off for missions just like firefighters. The disaster protection law would be rewritten. The SPD condemns attacks on emergency workers. More women should take part.