As of: March 16, 2024, 3:35 p.m
By: Roland Lory
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Simulation of a knife attack: Two officers practice in the mat room.
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The Murnau Police Operations Center was inaugurated just over a month ago.
Officials from three districts practice a variety of scenarios there.
The Free State of Bavaria cost the system 14 million euros.
The Tagblatt paid a visit to the facility and the police officers.
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– 8.40 a.m., Murnau Police Operations Center.
A video is projected on the wall.
It is intended to sensitize the 20 police officers sitting in the room.
A police officer describes in an interview how she was confronted with a knife attack in Lower Franconia in 2018.
“Something like this can always happen, especially when you don’t expect it,” says the woman.
Operations have been running in the new training center, which is adjacent to the Murnau police station building, for a few weeks.
20 officers practice there every day from Monday to Friday.
They come from the districts of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Weilheim-Schongau and Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen.
There are almost 600 police officers in this area.
They all have to go to Murnau four times a year to further their education.
A central theme is selected for each block.
Currently it's about cutting, stabbing and impact weapons.
The women and men practice how to deal with a knife attack.
This means “absolute danger to life,” says Oliver Hanke, coordinator of the police operational trainers.
Michael Bayerlein, head of the central emergency services, makes it clear: “It is a myth that police officers can fend off all knife attacks.”
In the control room of the shooting range: (from left) Michael Bayerlein, Markus Radlmaier and Oliver Hanke.
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In a large room lined with mats, the basics of the knife attack are first discussed.
The police officers train in groups of two, using rubber knives.
Daniel Kischkel, one of seven trainers, explains details.
Things really get down to business in the basement, where a so-called room shooting range has been set up.
There, the course participants shoot with live ammunition, initially at moving targets.
Then film scenes are projected on the wall.
Like this one: A man is standing at a car and has a tool in his hand.
Various scenarios can now be played through.
Sometimes he throws the tools away, sometimes he runs behind the car, sometimes he runs towards the police.
Change of location to the multifunctional room.
The scenario is different there. A man wearing a black jacket and hood sits at a table in a youth center.
There is a knife and a bottle on it.
He bobs his head, apparently listening to music.
But he's not actually allowed to stay in Juze.
Different behaviors are played out again.
In one case, the man pulls out a so-called shocknife - a training knife that can be energized at the push of a button and produces a painful stimulus on the skin when touched.
The multifunctional room can be converted in a very short time using a partition system, for example into a small apartment or a hallway in a school.
The training center opened at the beginning of February.
The project cost 14 million euros and was therefore exactly within budget.
Hanke is still excited.
“This is a major win for us.” He thinks: “This is an appropriate atmosphere for further training.” Bayerlein is also impressed.
According to him, next to Passau it is probably the most modern operations center in Bavaria.
In the past, police officers had to travel to different places to train - to Schongau, Weilheim or Mittenwald.
That wasn't a long-term situation.
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In the mat room: The trainers (from left) Daniel Kischkel and Sebastian Wittmann with participants in the training.
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“If you want to be up to date, a new building is essential,” emphasized State Secretary Sandro Kirchner (CSU) during a construction site visit a year ago.
Kirchner made it clear at the time that the 14 million for the reinforced concrete structure with a clinker brick facade was “money best spent for the police officers and for the safety of all of us.”
It is important to create a modern offer for civil servants.
The policewoman from Lower Franconia who was confronted with a man's knife attack suffered a stab wound.
The perpetrator hit a rib, otherwise the incident could have turned out badly.
He had stabbed several times.
It took “forever before we got him under control,” she says in the interview.
Training like the one in Murnau is intended to help officers from the three districts to successfully master such situations and get out of it with as few injuries as possible.
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