Security policy
Counter-terrorism with “smart controls”
A day after the terrorist attacks of Brussels, the German policy to respond – with a debate on the internal security. The Minister of the interior calls for more seamless exchange of Data on hazards, police practitioners intelligent controls.
More veil fahnung, more security? The debate in Germany has begun
After the shock of the terrorist attacks at the Brussels airport and the EU-the government quarter of a debate on internal security gets underway in Germany. How great is the danger of terrorist attacks in Germany? And how can we create more security? Federal interior Minister Thomas de Maizière gave the first impulse yesterday evening compared to the ARD. In the program “issues of the day”, he claimed, to understand the Brussels attacks as a Wake-up call for an increased exchange of data of European safety authorities. A long-requested, but never realised linking existing “data pots” in Europe, it was necessary to be able to international terrorism in the middle in Europe the forehead. “Privacy is nice, but in times of crisis like these, the safety is a priority,” the Minister said fighters.
Bosbach: state must invest more money in police
Want the “Data pools” will be networked: the Minister of the interior de Maizière
Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel, Vice-Chairman, of the mitregiere the social Democrats, warned in the Morning to the German radio in front of it, to speculate on reflex tightening of the laws.”Most of the länder have saddles in the last year significantly, both in police as well as the offices for the protection of the Constitution,” said Schäfer-Gümbel. In fact, the year 2015 in Europe were in crisis, as well as in Germany, numerous security tightened laws as a response to the attacks of Paris. In Germany, data retention has been expanded to better fight against terrorism, an extension of the Anti-terror laws are on their way. And at the EU level, a better sharing of airline passenger data was agreed.
However, Wolfgang Bosbach, CDU, sees domestic politicians in the Bundestag, the urgent need for action. The States had to put any more money into the chronically under-financed security agencies, the politicians in the Morning to the German radio. The goal is to connect well-established German police forces with European partners, according to the model of the joint terror defense center in Berlin-Treptow, Bosbach: “How do we coordinate the security authorities of the Federation and the Länder, which must also happen at a European level.” Bosbach wants a uniform Definition of the term “offenders” in all EU countries. And to loosen, he underlined the claim of the Minister of the interior, data protection rules. In Europe, safety-relevant data in the VISA information system and the Schengen information system, the security authorities for reasons of privacy, not, together, could access. “This data is put into a large Silo, and the Silos standing next to each other. Important to an overall look.” Here are the European co-operation have failed so far.
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After the attacks in Brussels: Massive security arrangements at Frankfurt airport
For André Schulz, President of the Federal of German detective, it is not for Germany, with the raised fingers pointing to the failings of other EU to show States or the EU bureaucracy. Also in Germany, the police work to fail all too often to the self-interest between the individual länder. “National borders are often limits to more Information,” said Schulz to the Deutschland radio. As a unionist, he pointed in particular to the misguided personnel policy in the security authorities. Many police authorities have dismantled in the past few years, massive staff. The revenge now, he said: “We are trying to recruit staff, but no longer gets, sometimes not even the staff, what you need and also the training place for the police to come to the limits of their capacity.” As a concrete response to the continuing high risk of terrorist attacks in Germany, Schulz called for the introduction of “intelligent controls” at the German borders. How high the risk was, could not substantiate it. “We have a strong possibility of the so-called veil search, so measures at the borders, where the experts look at the traffic, and then specifically check”. This could be a way to avoid closed borders.
Interior Minister: No concrete Germany references
Countries need to provide: Wolfgang Bosbach
In relation to the risk situation in Germany, the Minister of the interior had to be repeated in the evening, this was “still high”. The security authorities would do everything in its Power to prevent attacks. A visible sign informed the Federal police a few hours after the attacks. The presence of police officers at airports, train stations, and safety-critical buildings were significantly expanded. Border controls at Crossings of the Benelux countries and France were strengthened, and according to the principle of the veil of tracing visual checks carried out. CDU politician Bosbach stricter, also with a view to the entry of tens of thousands of refugees without papers in the past few months, the Pitch. “We should not allow anyone into the country with a completely unknown identity and nationality”. This is not a recipe against terrorist threat, the citizens of the EU with impunity in Europe, a confessed however he also.