Ministry of the Interior: Baden-Württemberg is becoming more and more secure

Created: 2022-02-15Updated: 2022-02-15, 12:16 p.m

Interior Minister Thomas Strobl (CDU).

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Even if the sense of security among the population often contradicts this, crime in the country is steadily declining.

The Ministry draws an initial positive balance for the year 2021.

Stuttgart - According to an initial estimate by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of the Interior, crime in the state fell again last year.

The trend of the past few years continued in 2021, Interior Minister Thomas Strobl (CDU) reported on Tuesday at the meeting of the green-black cabinet.

"There are signs of a renewed decrease in the crime rate with a tendency to increase the clear-up rate," the ministry told the German Press Agency.

As early as 2020, the country recorded the lowest crime rate since 1984 with 4,852 crimes per 100,000 inhabitants. The clear-up rate was 64 percent, the best rate since the early 1960s.

There are also signs of a renewed decline in crimes in public spaces for 2021.

The number of cases fell in 2020 for the fifth time in a row.

Since 2015, the cases have been reduced by around 16 percent to around 230,000 cases, the ministry said.

"Baden-Württemberg is one of the safest countries," said Interior Minister Strobl.

"This is no coincidence, but the result of hard work."

Crimes in public spaces include theft, property damage, fraud, drug and aggression offenses.

Offenses of aggression in public spaces, which particularly shape citizens' sense of security, fell by 5.7 percent in 2020, drug offenses by 4.2 percent and sexual harassment by 10.9 percent.

According to the ministry, there are signs of a further decline in 2021 for aggression offenses and also for crimes in public spaces.

"Security begins in public space, where people live, meet and move around," said Strobl.

They play all over the keyboard to strengthen security: "We are testing intelligent video surveillance, we enable local bans on alcohol consumption by the municipalities or carry out targeted search and security days or local security conferences." In addition, the state has tailor-made security partnerships with the cities of Freiburg and Heidelberg and Stuttgart and developed a tailor-made security package for these cities.

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The regional police headquarters would have carried out six so-called search and security days in 2021 - these consist of 24-hour search and control measures on specific topics such as document forgery, security in local transport or cross-border crime.

Balance sheet of the ministry: Around 40,000 checks, in which almost 100 so-called liberty deprivation measures were carried out and almost 50 arrest warrants were executed.

5,000 officers were deployed and found around 3,000 criminal and administrative offenses.

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