Frankfurt / Main (dpa / lhe) – Frankfurt’s new police chief Stefan Müller has been officially installed in his office. The 60-year-old is the ideal person for this challenging task, said Interior Minister Peter Beuth (CDU) on Monday at the ceremony in Frankfurt. He emphasized Müller’s assertive and reflective leadership personality, who stood for an “innovative, open and diverse” police force. The previous president of the West Hesse police headquarters is now responsible for 4,000 employees and for security in Germany’s fifth largest city
Müller himself said that public safety on streets and squares is high on his agenda. In particular, it is about improving the conditions in the station district, where there is a “multiple problem situation”. In addition, both Müller and Beuth condemned the increased anti-queer attacks that had recently taken place in Frankfurt. The new president also emphasized how important the public’s perspective is to him when it comes to recognizing fearful spaces.
For Müller, taking office in Frankfurt has also come full circle, because the 60-year-old had started his career with the homicide squad there 40 years ago. He later worked in the Commissariat for Combating Organized Crime. In 1996 he was transferred to the LKA in Wiesbaden, where he headed various special commissions.
Most recently, he was also in charge of the restructuring of the Frankfurt Special Operations Command (SEK) after it was dissolved and reorganized due to right-wing extremist events. Müller’s predecessor, Gerhard Bereswill, retired in April after around seven and a half years at the head of the largest executive committee in Hesse.