SPD-Head of Saskia esque has put into perspective your statement about a “latent racism” in the German police. “I don’t think the racism problem is in the structure, but the Problem lies in individual cases,” said esque on Thursday after a visit to the police Academy of lower Saxony. It was not their intention to make the police officers “under suspicion”. Lower Saxony interior Minister Boris Pistorius (SPD) had invited the party boss in the police Academy.
The police profession was a “very special job”, since the police forces were exercising the state’s monopoly of violence. It was a professional group, “there are no black sheep allowed to give,” said esque. Although there would be “always one”, but it needs to be worked on. The “very, very vast majority” of police officers see it the same way.
“police officers do not want racists in their ranks,” said esque. Therefore, “it hurts you also, if you are placed in the vicinity of racists”. The SPD Chairman said: “This was and is not at all my concern.”
The policy should provide a framework that the police be protected from this accusation, “but also in front of people who are not suitable to work in their ranks,” said esque, and stressed the need for independent complaint bodies to be set up.
