Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) – After long consultations, Baden-Württemberg now wants to introduce compulsory identification for police officers during large-scale operations such as football games and demonstrations, following the example of other federal states. A corresponding draft law is to be passed in the green-black cabinet on Tuesday, as reported by the “Südwest Presse” and confirmed by the state parliament. This is intended to facilitate investigations against police officers after large-scale operations.
“Police officers are obliged to wear an individual identification tag suitable for subsequent identification, according to more detailed provisions by the Ministry of the Interior when deployed in standing, closed units,” says the draft law.
The labeling requirement is a project from the green-black coalition agreement. It is still unclear when the regulation will come into force.
The aim of the law is “to further strengthen the great trust of the citizens in the police in the long term,” Interior Minister Thomas Strobl (CDU) explains the plans, according to the newspaper. Strobl hopes that the “pseudonymized individual identification” that is now being sought will simplify the “clarification of any criminal offenses and any not insignificant breaches of official duty” by individual civil servants.
