What do the parties in Thuringia say on public safety?

The AfD wants to provide more money and staff for swift prosecution of crimes and to appoint more judges to the courts. Crimes from the far-left spectrum are to be pursued consistently, and conditions for prison staff improved.

The AfD wants crimes to be prosecuted faster. There should be more money and more staff for this. Courts should get more judges. Far-left crimes should be pursued more strictly. Prison staff should also get better conditions.

The AfD wants to hire more officers and equip the state police better. This includes tasers, body cameras and digitally equipped patrol cars. The platform justifies this with the tasks it expects in the coming years.

The AfD wants more police officers in Thuringia. The police should get better equipment. This includes tasers and small cameras worn on the body. Patrol cars should also get digital technology.

The AfD supports video surveillance in urban places where it sees public safety as especially at risk. According to the platform, safety in city centers has declined, which the party attributes in part to immigration policy.

The AfD wants cameras in certain places in cities. These are places the party considers especially unsafe. The AfD says cities have become less safe. It partly blames immigration for this.

The AfD wants to abolish Thuringia's Office for the Protection of the Constitution (the state's domestic intelligence agency) in its current form. In the platform's view, the agency is politically steered and used against peaceful opposition; the party considers it beyond reform.

The AfD wants to abolish the Verfassungsschutz in Thuringia. This is a domestic intelligence agency. The AfD says it is used against the opposition. The party does not believe it can be fixed.

The AfD rejects stricter gun laws and wants to abolish checks on gun storage that are carried out without cause. In the platform's view, gun law in Thuringia is used politically against government critics; the party demands that it be depoliticized.

The AfD does not want stricter gun rules. Authorities should no longer check gun storage without a reason. The AfD says gun law is used against critics of the government. This should stop.

The AfD wants to make volunteering in Thuringia's fire departments more attractive in order to prevent staff shortages and the closure of local brigades. It also wants the state to spend more on firefighting equipment and to fund the construction of rescue stations.

The AfD wants to strengthen volunteer fire departments. Volunteers should pay less in local fees. The state should give more money for new fire trucks. Rescue stations should also become more modern.

The BSW wants a more visible police presence, more positions especially for patrol and investigative units, and better equipment. Attacks on police and emergency workers should be punished consistently, while the state domestic intelligence agency should face more democratic oversight.

There should be more police on the streets. The police should get more staff and better gear. People who attack police or rescue workers should be punished. The Verfassungsschutz should be watched more closely. It is the state's domestic intelligence agency.

The BSW wants the state to give more support to fire departments, the DLRG lifesaving society, disaster relief and emergency medical services, arguing that municipalities often cannot handle the costs. Volunteer fire departments in rural areas should get help from paid professional staff.

Fire and rescue services should get more help from the state. Towns often cannot pay the costs alone. Volunteer fire departments in the countryside should get paid helpers. The state fire academy should offer more training spots.

The BSW believes investigators and prosecutors are not adequately prepared for challenges posed by AI and cybercrime. It therefore wants to create a specialized prosecution office and draw up rules for dealing with artificial intelligence.

There is more and more crime on the internet. The BSW wants a special prosecutors' office for it. It should deal only with these crimes. There should also be rules for artificial intelligence.

The BSW wants early crime prevention that teaches young people to take responsibility for their actions. More school social workers and street workers are to be deployed, and justice topics are to get more attention in class.

Children and teens should learn early to take responsibility. This should lead to less crime. There should be more social workers at schools. Students should visit courts.

The CDU wants to hire 350 police trainees every year so that at least 300 new officers enter service annually. Police are to be present in rural areas too, and the job is to become more attractive through better pay and promotions.

The CDU wants to hire more police officers. Every year 350 young people should start training. There should be enough police in rural areas too. Police officers should get better pay.

The CDU wants to equip every police officer on duty with a body camera, citing rising violence against officers. Police are also to receive digital devices, be relieved of administrative work and non-police tasks, and spend more time on patrol.

The CDU wants to give every police officer on duty a body camera. This is a small camera worn on the body. It should protect officers from violence. All officers should also get smartphones or tablets. They should have less paperwork and be on the street more.

The CDU wants police to make far greater use of video surveillance in public squares and wants to make weapon-free zones easier to set up. Municipal public order offices are to get more powers and equipment. According to the platform, the aim is more safety in public spaces and action against knife attacks.

The CDU wants more cameras in public squares. It wants to make it easier to create zones where weapons are banned. In these zones, police may check people without suspicion. City public order offices should also get more powers.

The CDU wants to allow police to issue preventive no-contact and stay-away orders and to monitor them with electronic ankle tags. This is meant to better protect potential victims of domestic violence and stalking. It also wants to make it easier for crime victims to obtain compensation.

Police should be able to ban offenders from coming near a victim. An electronic ankle tag should monitor this. That is a device on the leg that reports the location. Victims of crime should get help and money more easily.

The CDU wants to expand Thuringia's Verfassungsschutz (domestic intelligence service) in staff and technology and give it new powers. It is to use informants again, carry out remote searches of computers and monitor organized crime. Extremism is to be fought in all its forms.

The CDU wants to strengthen the Verfassungsschutz. This is the state's domestic intelligence service. It should use informants from extremist groups again. It should also be allowed to secretly search computers. It should watch criminal gangs as well.

The CDU wants an investment program to fix equipment shortfalls in fire departments and to give volunteer brigades more financial support. The bonus for youth fire brigades is to quadruple. The platform argues that fire and disaster protection does not work without volunteers.

Fire departments should get new vehicles and better technology. The state should pay more for this. Youth fire brigades should get 100 euros per member instead of 25. Young firefighters should get money toward a driver's license.

The CDU wants to reorganize disaster protection together with counties and independent cities and to warn the public more effectively. This includes more sirens, a separate Thuringian warning day and a firefighting and disaster protection base at Erfurt-Weimar airport. Preparations are also to be made for civil protection in the event of war.

The CDU wants to warn people better when there is danger. Towns should get more sirens. Thuringia should have its own warning day. Firefighting helicopters and planes should be based at Erfurt-Weimar airport. The CDU wants to talk with the federal government about shelters.

The CDU wants to reward volunteers in fire brigades, mountain rescue, aid organizations and the THW (federal technical relief agency) with a statewide discount card. It also plans a service anniversary payment and an annual emergency services day meant to attract young people to volunteering.

Volunteer helpers should get a service card. It makes things like buses, swimming pools and museums cheaper. Long service should be rewarded with money. A yearly day in schools should get children interested in volunteering.

The CDU calls for mandatory retention of IP addresses and connection data for a minimum period in order to solve and prevent serious crimes. According to the platform, security should take priority over the individual's data protection. Artificial intelligence is also to support investigative work.

The CDU wants IP addresses to be stored by law. An IP address shows which connection was active on the internet. A judge must allow police to read the data. Police should also use artificial intelligence. Security should matter more than data protection.

The CDU rejects stricter rules for legal gun ownership, arguing that Germany already has very strict gun laws. Instead, it wants to step up action against illegal gun possession. In its view, hunters and traditional and sport shooters should no longer be put at a disadvantage.

The CDU does not want stricter gun laws. It says the laws are already very strict. Criminals do not follow laws anyway. The CDU wants to do more against illegal guns. Hunters and sport shooters should not be treated unfairly.

The CDU wants to preserve, support and protect Jewish life in Thuringia and its institutions. Against antisemitism it relies on more education and awareness work and on rigorous prosecution.

The CDU wants to protect Jewish life in Thuringia. It wants more education about hatred of Jews. People who spread this hatred should be punished hard. This also applies online.

The CDU acknowledges the contribution Muslims living in Thuringia make to the community. It rejects political Islamism and will not accept parallel societies with their own rules alongside the constitutional order.

The CDU says many Muslims contribute to Thuringia. But it rejects political Islamism. Nobody should live by their own laws outside the state's rules.

The Left wants to strengthen rehabilitation, reintegration and alternatives to prison and to achieve the abolition of imprisonment for unpaid fines via the Bundesrat. Thuringia's prisons are to do without firearms and guarantee single cells.

People who do not pay a fine must go to prison today. The Left wants to end that. Prisoners should get more help for life after prison. There should be no more guns in prisons.

The Left wants to fight far-right structures with all official means, up to and including bans. Plans include a specialized prosecutor's office for hate crime, tougher action against far-right rock concerts and a plan against properties used by the scene.

The Left wants stronger action against neo-Nazis. Authorities should ban far-right groups where the law allows it. A special prosecutor's office should pursue hate crimes. Victims of far-right violence should get more protection.

The Left wants to abolish Thuringia's Office for the Protection of the Constitution. It considers the need for an agency organized as an intelligence service unproven and wants to fund research institutions on democracy and civil society more strongly instead.

The Left wants to abolish Thuringia's Verfassungsschutz. That is a domestic intelligence service. The party thinks it is not needed. It would rather fund research on democracy.

The Left wants to turn the existing police ombuds office into a stand-alone complaints and investigation authority outside the police. Police officers themselves should also be able to file complaints there. In addition, the requirement for officers to wear identification is to be enforced consistently.

Today there is an office for complaints about the police. The Left wants to turn it into its own agency. This agency should not be part of the police. It should be able to investigate on its own. Police officers should also be able to complain there.

The Left wants to secure reliable staffing for Thuringia's police with a ten-year concept. This is paired with better allowances, promotion and career prospects, modernized training and a lighter day-to-day workload.

The Left wants a staffing plan for the police. The plan should cover ten years. Open jobs should be filled faster. Police officers should get better allowances and better chances to move up. Training should become more modern.

The Left wants to align police law more closely with civil rights and allow new powers only where they are necessary and proportionate. A police committee in the state parliament would oversee covert police work. The use of pepper spray is to be restricted.

The Left wants to change police law. The rights of citizens should count for more. A new committee in the state parliament should oversee the police. This applies mostly to undercover work. Police should use pepper spray only when there is real danger.

The Left wants to end racial profiling, meaning police checks based on outward traits such as skin color. To that end, powers in the state's police law that the party sees as encouraging such checks would be removed. People who are stopped would receive a receipt in the future.

Sometimes police stop people only because of how they look. This is called racial profiling. The Left wants to end it. Police should no longer stop people without a reason. Anyone who is stopped should get a receipt.

The Left wants to secure the readiness of fire departments across the state, especially in small towns. To do so, it plans to revise the fire and disaster protection law, strengthen volunteering and modernize the state fire service school.

The Left wants to strengthen fire departments. Firefighters should be able to help quickly in small towns too. Towns should work together more on this. Volunteer firefighters should get more support. The fire service school in Bad Köstritz should be modernized.

The SPD wants more staff for the Thuringian police to improve its presence across the state. A steady 300 trainees are to be hired each year. Officers are to be better protected and police work made more attractive.

The SPD wants more police officers in Thuringia. Every year, 300 new people should start training. Police should be present everywhere in the state. People who attack emergency workers should face tougher punishment. Police buildings should be renovated.

The SPD wants to make police work more attractive, including through free state-paid health care for all officers and a new system of allowances. It also wants more women in leadership roles and more recruits from diverse backgrounds.

The SPD wants more people to join the police. Officers should get free health care from the state. The extra pay for officers should get new rules. More women should become police leaders.

The SPD wants to equip the police better digitally and train them for online investigations. Investigators are to receive new technical and legal tools, and artificial intelligence is to be used under human oversight.

The SPD wants a more digital police force. There should be a degree program for IT investigators. The police should get new technology and new legal powers. They should also use artificial intelligence. But a person should check every decision a machine makes.

The SPD wants to make protecting women from violence a priority of police work. At the federal level it wants to push for harsher penalties for femicides, meaning killings of women because of their gender.

The SPD wants to protect women better from violence. The police should make this a main task. Femicides should be punished more harshly. A femicide is the killing of a woman because she is a woman. Police officers should learn more about this.

The SPD wants to turn the police ombuds office into an oversight authority under the Ministry of Justice. The program argues that when officers are reported, the police currently in effect investigate themselves. A study is also to examine anti-democratic attitudes and racism in the security agencies.

The SPD wants a new oversight body for the police. It should belong to the Ministry of Justice. Today the police look into complaints against officers themselves. The SPD wants to change that. A study should examine racism in the security agencies.

The SPD wants to provide more state money for the equipment, vehicles and stations of fire departments and rescue services. Volunteers are to be honored with a campaign and a bonus of 500 euros after ten years of active service.

The SPD wants to give fire departments more money. The money is for gear, vehicles and fire stations. Volunteer helpers should get a bonus. After 10 years of service they get 500 euros. A campaign should win young people for volunteer work.

The SPD wants to protect critical infrastructure better and make civil protection more capable. Protective measures are to be implemented by public and private operators alike, and the federal government is to contribute appropriately.

The SPD wants to protect important facilities better. These include power and water, for example. Public and private bodies should carry out protective steps. The federal government should share part of the task.

The SPD wants to close staffing gaps at prosecutors' offices and set up specialized units, for example for organized crime, internet crime and extremist offenses. Criminally obtained profits are to be confiscated more often.

The SPD wants to strengthen prosecutors' offices. There should be special units for serious crimes. These include organized crime and crimes on the internet. Extremist crimes are part of this too. The state should take away money from crimes more often.

The SPD wants crimes against people holding public office or elected mandates to continue to be prosecuted as a priority. It argues that these people have faced growing hostility and threats in recent years.

Politicians are threatened more often. The SPD does not want to accept this. Prosecutors should keep treating these crimes as a priority. There should also be advice for those affected.

The SPD wants to set up a volunteer office for the concerns of crime victims and establish a state fund for victim aid. Victims of crime are to receive protection and support and find their way to existing counseling services more easily.

The SPD wants to help crime victims more. One person should show victims where to get advice. This person works as a volunteer. There should also be a fund for victims. Victims get quick help from it.

The SPD wants a prison system that is secure, modern and geared toward reintegration. To that end, prison work is to become a more attractive career, and support for inmates during their transition to freedom is to be regulated in a dedicated law.

The SPD wants to modernize prisons in Thuringia. After prison, inmates should be able to live without crime. A new law should help with this. It covers support when inmates are released. Working in a prison should become better for staff.

The SPD wants to better equip the justice system's social services and the associations that provide independent offender support. According to the platform, this prevents new crimes and repeat imprisonment and thereby serves public safety.

Some people have committed a crime and live outside prison. Specialists and associations support them. The SPD wants more staff and better equipment for this work. The goal is fewer new crimes.