The corona cases at the Saxon police are skyrocketing.
Due to the steep dynamics, many areas in the Free State could be threatened from the possible end.
Munich - The fourth wave of the corona virus continues to hit Germany heavily.
The rapid increase in incidence continues.
According to the Robert Koch Institute, it rose to 386.5 on Monday morning and thus reached a new high.
According to Executive Chancellor Angela Merkel, the new traffic light regulations are not sufficient.
"We have a highly dramatic situation," remarked the Chancellor in an internal round.
But the Chancellor's statement on the highly dramatic situation would also be appropriate for the police in Saxony.
The fourth wave hit the Saxon police particularly hard.
This is now confronted with a worrying situation.
The number of cases among the 14,000 employed civil servants is increasing massively.
The operation of districts is reportedly severely affected.
Corona collapse of the Saxon police ?: Union sounds the alarm - "Incidence at 4000"
The German Police Union of Saxony published an alarming report on Thursday and warned of a "corona collapse".
The paper said that 400 officials are currently infected with the virus, while more than 600 others are in quarantine.
This corresponds to an incidence of over 4000. “The trend is rising sharply”, was added.
The incidence could actually be even higher, since the official number only includes newly infected people in the past seven days - and not all those currently affected.
“More and more colleagues are falling ill and departments are at their limits,” the union emphasized in its statement.
The necessary service operations can still be maintained.
"But how much longer?" Was the rhetorical question from the police representatives.
Corona outbreak in the Saxon police: union shoots against state government - "could have been prevented"
The union blamed the state government for the situation and targeted it with clear words.
The Free State of Saxony has so far failed to “obtain the necessary vaccinations for its employees”.
The force of the fourth wave could have been prevented, according to the union.
She criticized the suspension of the vaccination campaign in the middle of the year - as well as the fact that it was initially not restarted.
"In the meantime, the child seems to have fallen into the well and the medical officers of the Saxon police are collapsing in view of the high number of sick employees," the statement underlined.
The medical officers would have “campaigned for the procurement of vaccines and the continuation of the vaccination measure in the summer of 2021”.
However, this was unsuccessful.
It was clearly a question of money and one obviously wanted to save in the wrong place, the report quoted the state chairwoman Cathleen Martin.
She spoke about the future situation on RTL and made gloomy prognoses: "The next two to five weeks will be really tricky with Saxony's police."
Corona dispute in Saxony: Interior Ministry rejects allegations by the police union
The Saxon Ministry of the Interior rejected the allegations against
RTL
.
"The recent low demand from the staff and the various other vaccination options" were reasons for the discontinuation of the vaccination campaign.
However, a new booster vaccination campaign is currently being prepared, which will start in the last week of November, according to the ministry.
The Saxon police themselves
did not
confirm the union's allegations when asked by
Spiegel
.
A spokesman on Twitter emphasized that the operational capability of the police was not endangered despite the high number of infections.
The news magazine reported that neither the police nor the ministry gave exact figures on sick leave among the workforce.
(bb)