Empty guard in an emergency - Herrschingen police have a new deployment model: that's behind it

Every officer goes to work, the guard is orphaned: this scenario is now possible at the Herrsching police thanks to the alarm system.

In this way, one can react more flexibly to serious traffic accidents or break-ins, explains the police and emphasizes that they can still be reached around the clock - even if nobody is there.

Herrsching - In the event of a car crash or a break-in with several fleeing perpetrators, small police stations like Herrschinger are in a fix.

You don't have enough people to cope with the situation.

Kevin Perleberg, Vice Head of Inspection, recalls a break-in at a large company a few months ago.

“You can't go around a building with a patrol,” he says.

Perleberg welcomes the tactical means that the Herrschinger has now received as the first Police Inspectorate (PI) in the district - officially on Tuesday during the visit of the President of the Police Headquarters Upper Bavaria North, Günther Gietl.

In official German, the innovation is called the "concept of making the field service more flexible".

Specifically, it means: In special cases, the duty group leader may send out all available police officers to be deployed - even if that means that the guard is then orphaned.

This is now possible - according to a German official press release thanks to "structural and technical expansion".

Means: The PI now has, among other things, an alarm system and burglar-proof windows.

Not before?

Perleberg: "No, we were manned 24 hours a day, seven days a week."

Police Deputy Chief thinks the new flexibility is good

And that will stay that way, with exceptions, says the vice-chief of police at the guard, which, in addition to Herrsching, is also responsible for Weßling, Seefeld, Andechs, Inning and Wörthsee.

The police in the Upper Bavaria North area introduced the flexible field service for the first time in May 2019 in Geisenfeld (Pfaffenhofen district).

The pilot project will now run for almost two years.

During this time, the service group leaders resorted to tactical means 28 times and sent all available forces to action - a little more than once a month.

And, according to Perleberg, especially at night between 9 p.m. and 4 a.m. when the guard was scarce.

The missions lasted between 30 minutes and three hours.

In Herrsching from April 1st, it can happen that a citizen wants to report a game or car accident at night and stands in front of closed doors.

Whereby Perleberg avoids the word closure.

One is always available.

Anyone who rings the doorbell or calls when nobody is there is automatically connected to the operations center in Ingolstadt.

It then decides how acute the case is and alerts personnel from the surrounding area accordingly.

For larger deployments in the area of ​​PI Herrsching, the reinforcement comes from Starnberg, for example, and has a longer journey to get there.

This is one of the reasons why Deputy Chief Perleberg thinks the new flexibility is good.

But doesn't all of this hide the fact that the smaller departments are very thinly staffed?

Thomas Regnat, chairman of the German Police Union, made this kind of criticism two years ago when it was introduced to Geisenfeld in a letter to the editor in the “Donaukurier”: “A real police presence cannot be achieved through flexible deployment management and the associated locked doors.

Even fine calculations and statistical tricks are of little use here.

Only more police officers mean more real police presence in reality, ”he wrote.

Confronted with this, Perleberg refers to the concept "The Bavarian Police 2025" for the allocation of positions in the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior.

He is certain: "The inspections in the Starnberg district will also benefit from this."