What do the parties in Schleswig-Holstein say on public safety?

The CDU wants to change state police law so that officers may also use bodycams inside private homes. Use in business premises is to be made easier. The platform justifies this with protecting officers and de-escalating situations.

Police officers sometimes wear small cameras on their bodies. These are called bodycams. The CDU wants to allow them inside homes too. Using them in shops and offices should become easier. The CDU says this protects officers from violence.

The CDU wants to hire additional psychologists at the regional police headquarters. Officers should be able to process stressful operations and investigations faster and more easily.

Police officers often see terrible things. This is hard on body and mind. The CDU wants to hire more psychologists for the police. Officers should get help faster.

The CDU wants to keep modernizing the state police's technology, buildings and vehicle fleet. Search tools such as automatic license plate readers, dashcams and drones are to be used more. The water police are also to get new boats.

The CDU wants to equip the police better. They should get modern technology, buildings and vehicles. The police should use more drones and cameras. Devices should read license plates automatically. The water police should get new boats.

The CDU wants to further improve the police pay structure and open up paths for promotion. More women are to reach leadership positions, and the police force is to reflect the diversity of society.

The CDU wants to make police jobs more attractive. Pay should get better. More women should become leaders. Leadership jobs should also be possible part-time. The police should be as diverse as society.

The CDU wants to keep hiring additional police officers and finish building up the second riot police unit. Police stations are to be reopened where this serves public safety. The police should be visible and reachable in towns and rural areas alike.

The CDU wants to hire more police officers. A second large police unit should be completed. Some police stations should open again. The police should be easy to see and reach everywhere.

The CDU wants to keep fighting home burglaries through police presence and higher clearance rates and to continue the burglary protection program. Older people are to be better protected from fraud. Local police prevention work is to grow.

The CDU wants to keep fighting home burglaries. The police should catch more offenders. Older people should be better protected from fraudsters. One example is the grandparent scam. The police should do more to stop crimes before they happen.

The CDU wants to create a "Cyber-Hundertschaft" (cyber unit) made up of IT specialists and specialized detectives. It is to pursue online crimes such as hate crime, fraud and attacks on companies and critical infrastructure. The police as a whole are also to work more digitally.

Many crimes now happen on the internet. The CDU wants to build a special police group for this. It is called the cyber unit. Computer experts and investigators work together there. The police should also use more artificial intelligence.

The CDU wants to give the police new powers for the most serious crimes: covert online searches, interception of encrypted communication at the source, and data retention, each requiring a judge's order. Data protection rules are to be adjusted so crimes can be solved effectively.

The CDU wants to give the police new powers. Police should be allowed to search computers secretly. They should also be allowed to read encrypted messages. Connection data should be stored for a while. This should apply only to very serious crimes. A judge must agree first.

The CDU puts a focus on fighting human trafficking as well as biker gang, clan and drug crime. Money laundering is to be pursued more rigorously and criminally obtained assets confiscated. To combat sexual abuse of children, it wants to use more artificial intelligence.

The CDU wants to fight gangs and drug dealing harder. Human trafficking is part of this too. The state should take away money from crimes. The CDU also wants to protect children better from abuse. Computer programs should help review pictures and data.

The CDU wants to expand police custody for people considered a terrorist threat in order to prevent attacks. More video technology is to be used at places such as airports, train stations and shopping centers. It also wants to examine a statewide weapons ban at train stations.

The CDU wants to be able to hold dangerous people longer. It wants to prevent attacks this way. There should be more cameras at train stations and airports. The CDU is also looking at banning weapons at train stations. Cities should be able to set up weapon bans more easily.

The CDU wants to make criminal proceedings faster by making greater use of existing procedural options such as expedited proceedings. It is open to further reforms of criminal procedure law. Victim protection is to be expanded as a central part of justice policy.

The CDU wants criminal trials to go faster. Courts should handle simple cases quickly. The CDU is open to new rules for this. Victims of crime should get help more easily.

The CDU wants to continue adding prison staff and keep promoting the reintegration of offenders. According to the platform, security and rehabilitation belong together. Psychiatric services and drug detection in prisons are to be expanded.

The CDU wants more staff in prisons. Prisoners should be able to live without crime after release. There should be good support for that. Prisons should have more drug-sniffing dogs. Help for people with mental illness should also grow.

The CDU wants to strengthen municipal public order services and expand them especially in towns that belong to a county. The state administrative act is to be amended for this. More video surveillance is to be used at crime hot spots such as train stations and transit stops.

Many cities have their own public order service. It keeps order when the police are not in charge. The CDU wants to strengthen these services. Smaller towns should have them too. There should be more cameras at train stations and stops.

The CDU wants civil protection to be better equipped for crises such as storm surges, floods, wildfires, or power outages. Plans include a statewide siren network, digital alerts, and a new situation and competence center.

The CDU wants the state to be better prepared for disasters. There should be sirens everywhere in the state. There should also be warnings on phones. A new center should keep track of things during a crisis.

The CDU wants to help volunteer fire departments recruit new members and make volunteering more attractive. Training courses are to count as educational leave, and the state is to keep funding vehicles, fire stations, and the state fire academy.

Many fire departments cannot find enough new members. The CDU wants to make joining more attractive. People who train for the fire service should get educational leave for it. The state should pay for fire trucks and fire stations.

The CDU wants hate crimes online and offline to be prosecuted more consistently and punished more severely. Religious institutions are to receive special protection, and the party also wants to combat hostility toward Islam.

The CDU wants tougher punishment for crimes driven by hate. This also applies to hate on the internet. Churches, synagogues, and mosques should be well protected. No one should be afraid to show their religion.

The CDU wants to give the state's Verfassungsschutz (domestic intelligence agency) more staff, modern technology, and new legal powers. It is to be allowed to search mobile devices and intercept communications at the source in order to detect extremists early.

The Verfassungsschutz is an agency that watches enemies of democracy. The CDU wants to give it more staff and better technology. It should be allowed to search phones. It should also be allowed to read messages. The CDU wants to change the law for this.

The CDU wants to better coordinate prevention and deradicalization against right-wing and left-wing extremism and Islamism, and to strengthen exit programs. Groups monitored by the domestic intelligence agency are to be barred from public institutions and state funding.

The CDU wants to act against extremists. People should get help to leave extreme groups. The domestic intelligence agency watches some groups. These groups should get no money from the state.

The CDU wants to set up a contact point within the state police for local politicians who face threats. Crimes against them are to be prosecuted consistently. The platform justifies this with growing hate and aggression toward officeholders and municipal staff.

People in local politics often face hate and threats. The CDU wants to protect them better. The state police should get a special office for this. Crimes should be prosecuted.

The CDU wants to introduce a uniform and binding procedure statewide to identify women at especially high risk early on. Killings of women because of their gender are also to be recorded in crime statistics according to fixed criteria.

Some women are killed because they are women. This is called femicide. The CDU wants to prevent such crimes. Authorities should spot women in danger early and protect them. The police should count these crimes separately in their statistics.

Victims of sexual or domestic violence can have evidence secured in a form that holds up in court without filing a police report. The CDU wants to make this service better known and available around the clock.

Victims of violence can have evidence secured. They do not have to go to the police for this. The CDU wants more people to know about it. The service should be reachable day and night. Victims should also be able to testify in a protected setting.

The CDU considers the protection offered by the federal Prostituiertenschutzgesetz (Prostitute Protection Act) insufficient and wants it reviewed earlier. Illegal prostitution is to be fought harder, and prevention and exit programs are to be expanded.

The CDU wants to protect sex workers better. It says the federal law is not enough. The law should be reviewed earlier. Authorities should check the trade more often. There should be more help for people who want to leave.

The FDP wants to enlarge the state police's cybercrime units and found a cybersecurity center for Schleswig-Holstein. The platform says online crime, espionage and sabotage are growing and that fighting them must not fail for lack of resources.

The FDP wants to do more against crime on the internet. The police should get stronger expert teams for this. The state should found a center for cybersecurity. Cybersecurity means protection against attacks on computers and networks. This should keep power grids and other key systems safe.

The FDP rejects what it sees as unnecessary intrusions on fundamental rights and is critical of new or expanded powers for security agencies. Instead, it relies on consistently applying existing law and equipping the agencies well.

The FDP wants to protect people's basic rights. It is against more and more new powers for police and agencies. Agencies should apply the laws that already exist better. For this they should have enough staff and good equipment.

The FDP wants to create more positions in the state police, relieve officers of tasks unrelated to policing and make the job more attractive. This includes better promotion prospects, counting the police allowance toward pensions again and more psychosocial support.

The FDP wants more police officers in the state. The police should have fewer tasks that are not police work. The job should become more attractive. For this there should be better pay and more chances for promotion. After hard missions there should be more help.

The FDP wants to free the police from tasks outside their core work by shifting responsibilities elsewhere. Documentation duties are to be slimmed down and administrative work handed to administrative staff.

The FDP wants to take work off the police. Officers should do fewer tasks that are not real police work. They should fill out fewer forms. Office staff should do the office work.

The FDP wants to keep police stations across the state and continue treating home burglaries as a priority of police work. According to the platform, people's safety should not depend on where they live.

The FDP wants police stations everywhere in the state. The police should work hard against home break-ins. People should be equally safe everywhere. The state should keep helping people protect their homes.

The FDP wants a pilot project to test whether case data can be used to calculate the likelihood of future crimes and how artificial intelligence can be used by the police. The trial is to be open-ended and pay special attention to fundamental rights.

The FDP wants to test something new for the police. Computers would use old cases to work out where crimes are likely. This is called predictive policing. Experts should watch the test. People's basic rights should be respected.

The FDP wants to make crimes committed online a priority for the state police and significantly increase staff and equipment for it. Specialization is to happen not only at the State Criminal Police Office but also in local stations.

The FDP wants to do more against crime on the internet. The police should get more staff and better equipment for this. Local police stations should work on it too. The police should be able to hire computer experts.

The FDP wants to equip the Verfassungsschutz (domestic intelligence agency) with enough staff and technology to use its existing powers effectively. It rejects new surveillance measures unless an overall review of existing powers shows them to be strictly necessary.

The FDP wants to give the domestic intelligence agency more staff and modern equipment. This agency watches groups that work against democracy. But it should not get new powers to watch people. The FDP would only change that if it is truly necessary.

The FDP wants to act against political, religious and ideological extremism, with particular attention to right-wing extremism. Public funding is not to reach extremist organizations, while exit programs are to keep receiving support.

The FDP wants to fight extremism. Extremism means people reject democracy. The FDP means right-wing, left-wing and religious groups. Such groups should get no money from the state. Programs that help people leave these groups should keep getting money.

The FDP wants a prison system that protects society and prepares inmates for a life without crime. More staff, vocational training and expanded victim support are meant to achieve this.

The FDP wants to improve prisons. There should be more staff. Inmates should be able to learn and train for a job. That way they should not commit crimes later. Victims of crime should get more help.

The FDP wants to keep modernizing fire and disaster protection and update the state's 10-point plan. Because climate change may make natural disasters more frequent, it considers an effective warning system, including digital tools, necessary.

The FDP wants better protection in disasters. Helpers should get modern equipment. There should be a good warning system, also a digital one. The federal, state and county levels should work together better. Hospitals should be able to practice for emergencies.

The FDP wants a statewide recruitment strategy to make volunteering in fire departments and aid organizations more attractive. It wants to avoid compulsory fire brigades where possible.

Many people volunteer in fire departments and rescue groups. The FDP wants more people to join. There should be a plan for the whole state. Fire brigades for children and teens should get support. Nobody should be forced into fire service if it can be avoided.

The FDP wants to fight group-based hostility in all its forms and set up an action program against hate crime that also covers offenses committed online. The main goal is to keep hate from turning into physical violence.

The FDP wants to act against hate toward certain groups. This includes hate toward Jews, women or gay people. It plans a program against hate crimes. The program also covers insults on the internet. The aim is less violence.

The FDP rejects a state anti-discrimination law with a reversed burden of proof, arguing it would weigh down police work with bureaucracy and place officers under blanket suspicion. Instead, the office of the commissioner for the state police is to have enough resources to handle citizens' complaints.

The FDP does not want a state law against discrimination. It says such a law would make police work harder. But people should be able to complain about the police. There is an office for that. This office should have enough money and staff.

The Greens want to modernize and expand civil protection. Plans include a new state situation and competence center, a state stockpile of essential goods, new vehicles and preparations for prolonged power outages.

The Greens want the state to be better prepared for disasters. A new center should lead large operations. A warehouse should keep important things like medical supplies. Helpers should get new vehicles. The state should also prepare for long power cuts.

The Greens want to extend the MoWaS warning system with cell broadcast, more sirens and digital billboards. People with disabilities are to receive special attention in warnings and evacuations, and a state portal is to inform about risks and preparedness.

The Greens want better warnings when there is danger. Warnings should come straight to cell phones. There should be more sirens. People with disabilities should get special help. A website should explain how to prepare.

The Greens want the police to be adequately staffed and equipped but reject additional weapons systems. Training is to focus more on de-escalation, civic education and dealing with group-based hostility. Receipts would become mandatory for identity checks.

The police should be well equipped. But the Greens do not want more and more weapons for the police. Officers should learn more about calming conflicts. People who are checked should get a receipt.

The Greens reject the blanket storage of communications data without specific cause and want to target concrete dangers instead. They also reject the current use of source telecommunications surveillance and remote searches of devices, as well as body cams inside homes.

The Greens oppose storing everyone's data without a reason. The police should act against real dangers in a targeted way. The police should not secretly spy on phones and computers. They should not use body cameras inside homes either.

The Greens want to step up prosecution of hate crime, online offenses and money laundering. Specialized units of police and prosecutors are to work together, and victims are to get better support. Crime statistics are to become more informative.

The Greens want to act more strongly against hate crime. Police and prosecutors should work together well. Victims should get more help. Crimes on the internet and money laundering should also be pursued more.

The Greens want to significantly reduce the number of domestic violence offenses. To that end, support and counseling services and prevention are to be expanded, and violations of protection orders punished more strictly.

The Greens want less violence in families and relationships. Victims should get more help and advice. Offenders should have to take a training course early on. Anyone who keeps approaching a victim can be detained.

The Greens want human trafficking to be prosecuted consistently and victims to be better protected. At the federal level they advocate a right to stay for those affected; the state should also shield them from deportation as far as possible.

Human trafficking also happens in Schleswig-Holstein. The Greens want to pursue the offenders strictly. The victims should be allowed to stay in Germany. Counseling centers for victims should be strengthened.

The Greens want to review existing deradicalization, exit and prevention programs and expand the ones that work. The platform sees prevention as a task for society as a whole, with government and civil society working together.

The Greens want to check programs against extremism. Good programs should grow. This should keep people from becoming radical. Government and community groups should work together.

The Greens want to reform the state's Verfassungsschutz (domestic intelligence agency). Clear legal rules are to apply to informants and data storage, and the state parliament is to exercise stronger oversight.

The Greens want to change the Verfassungsschutz. That is the state's domestic intelligence agency. There should be clear rules for informants and for stored data. Parliament should watch the agency more closely.

The Greens want legal and security policy to pay more attention to victims of crime. Counseling and support services are to be expanded, and agencies are to reach out to victims on their own initiative.

The Greens want to help victims of crime more. There should be more counseling and support. Helpers should reach out to victims themselves. Victims should not be left alone.

The Greens see criminal law as a last resort. No one is to be jailed for petty offenses, jail time in place of unpaid fines is to be largely abolished, and the "small amount" of cannabis that goes unprosecuted is to rise to 20 grams.

The Greens want to send fewer people to prison. Small offenses should not lead to jail. People who cannot pay a fine should do community service instead. A larger amount of cannabis should go unpunished.

The Greens want the prison system to focus more on reintegration in order to reduce reoffending. This includes more qualified staff, better psychiatric care, a stronger open prison system and a building program for the facilities.

Prisoners should find their way back into society after release. The Greens want to modernize prisons for this. There should be more staff. Prisoners with mental illness should get better help.

The Greens want to better protect victims of far-right violence and give them a right to stay if they lack permanent residence status. The platform sees this as a signal against racist attackers' goal of driving people out of the country.

The Greens want to help victims of far-right violence. Some victims do not have a secure right to live here. They should be allowed to stay in Germany. Victims should also get psychological help and compensation.

The Greens see right-wing extremism as the greatest danger to society and want security agencies to make fighting it their top priority. Far-right events are to be monitored and threatened places protected.

The Greens see right-wing extremism as the biggest danger. Police and agencies should fight it first. Authorities should watch far-right concerts. Threatened places should get protection.

The Greens want security agencies to get better at detecting far-right networks and violence, up to and including terrorism. Investigators are to gain more social science expertise, and police and the judiciary are to receive targeted training.

The Greens want police and agencies to spot far-right extremists better. The agencies should get more expert knowledge. Police and courts should get more training. This should help solve far-right violent crimes.

The Greens demand that the state consistently prosecute illegal content online and that platforms then delete it. Public agencies and civil society groups are to receive funding for the fight against online hate.

The Greens want to fight hate on the internet. The state should prosecute illegal posts. The platforms should then delete these posts. Agencies and groups should get money for this work.

The Greens call for stricter gun laws. Identified right-wing radicals are to lose their firearms licenses, semi-automatic weapons are to be banned for private individuals, and private gun ownership is to be checked more strictly.

The Greens want stricter rules for guns. Right-wing radicals should not be allowed to own guns. Private people should not have semi-automatic guns. Officials should check guns and ammunition in homes closely.

The Greens want to combat money laundering more effectively in order to uncover the financial flows of organized crime. Plans include a stronger coordination office in the state, a cross-agency task force, more staff, and a Bundesrat initiative for a tougher money laundering law.

The Greens want to do more against money laundering. Money laundering means criminals hide where their money comes from. Police, prosecutors and tax investigators should work together more closely. People should be allowed to pay less in cash at once.

The SPD wants to quickly modernize disaster response in the state. This includes a statewide siren network and digital warning channels. Counties, fire departments and volunteer helpers would get more support.

The SPD wants to warn people better about disasters. There should be sirens across the whole state. Apps should send warnings too. Fire departments and volunteer helpers should get more help from the state.

The SPD wants to continue the current police hiring program with 100 additional positions per year. It also wants shorter weekly hours, better equipment and a more diverse police force.

The SPD wants to hire more police officers. Each year, 100 positions should be added. Officers should work fewer hours per week. The police should also recruit people with immigrant backgrounds.

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

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

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

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