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NRW: Clan fighter becomes police inspector

2019-10-07T04:38:19.524Z


Changing the guard in the NRW Interior Ministry: According to SPIEGEL information, Michael Schemke becomes the new inspector of the police - and thus the highest-ranking official in uniform. He has excelled as the head of the strategy against criminal clans.



The tough line against criminal clans in North Rhine-Westphalia now has personnel consequences in the police. Interior Minister Herbert Reul (CDU) wants to appoint the chief planner of his zero-tolerance strategy to the highest-ranking police officer in uniform. Michael Schemke, 58, will replace Bernd Heinen, 64, as Inspector of Police in November. Heinen is retiring due to age. Thus, the concept against clans, which among other things provides frequent controls and a high presence in the public space, reaches the highest level of management of the protection police.

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For a long time, the North Rhine-Westphalian state power had little interest in the activities of the clans. While the prosecutors in Berlin and Bremen had been working on the phenomenon for quite some time, officials in the West followed other priorities. "Politicians have not paid enough attention to the phenomenon in recent decades, but we've lost it," said Home Affairs Minister Herbert Reul, who has been in office since mid-2017, in an interview with SPIEGEL. The CDU politician made the topic one of his priorities - and Schemke was in the lead.

The chief police director Schemke was previously responsible for one of the two operational units in the ministry. He is considered assertive, experienced and well networked in the apparatus. The father of the family, whose son also works for the police, has been a civil servant for more than 40 years and has been highly served by the police sergeant. As an inspector, he will now be responsible for all uniformed policemen in North Rhine-Westphalia - that's about 30,000 men and women.

Source: spiegel

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