Status: 15.01.2024, 19:49 PM
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Jörg Krauss, the new Values Officer of the Interior Administration. © Bernd Weißbrod/dpa
Jörg Krauss, head of the new staff unit for modern leadership and value culture in the Interior Administration, sees structural problems in the promotion and staffing practices of the police. Selection procedures should not be anticipated, only the competence of the applicants may be evaluated, Krauss said on Monday before the committee of inquiry into the police affair in the state parliament.
Stuttgart - One sticking point is that only the appraisal grade counts in order to get a certain post. "The professional competence for a certain position does not play a role in the administrative courts."
He thinks the system needs to be worked on, Krauss replied to a question from a member of parliament. Especially in the police, a culture of standing up for each other has developed. Krauss described it as a danger when superiors promoted their peers. It is important to realize that you don't know everything yourself. When colleagues rise from the very bottom to the very top, they often lose their reflection, their distance from themselves, says Krauss.
Krauss, the former head of the Ministry of Finance, has only been the Values Commissioner of the Interior Administration for a few months. His staff unit had been set up as a consequence of the police affair. The committee is concerned with the practice of promotion in the police force and the question of how the inspector of police, who has since been relieved of his duties, was able to get into his high post. He had to answer for allegations of sexual assault before the district court and was acquitted for lack of evidence. The public prosecutor's office has lodged an appeal. Dpa