Union open to anti-discrimination law
Created: 12/05/2022 10:21 am
Police officers dressed in police vests stand in the city.
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The police union (GdP) in Baden-Württemberg is open to the planned anti-discrimination law under certain conditions.
State chief Gundram Lottmann now made a compromise proposal: If allegations are made against a police officer, his office would have to be confronted first, and not the officer himself, Lottmann told the German Press Agency in Stuttgart.
Stuttgart - Only when allegations are further confirmed will the officials be investigated.
"Then we can support it so far." If the investigations were directed against the official, Lottmann criticized that he could not be promoted during that time and could not apply for a job.
Such a career stop must be prevented.
"If the allegations vanish into thin air, the officer has not suffered any harm."
In the coalition agreement, the Greens and the CDU announced a state-specific anti-discrimination law - a concession by the CDU to the Greens.
It is intended to prevent discrimination based on skin color and other characteristics and is a supplement to the General Equal Treatment Act (AGG) at federal level.
Berlin has had its own state anti-discrimination law since 2020.
It is intended to facilitate lawsuits when people feel that police officers, clerks or other officials have treated them unfairly.
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