A shortage of police personnel in the Erding, Ebersberg and Freising districts, which has been complained about for years, is now being addressed. The job increase is not just on paper, promises a police spokesman.
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- The lament is as old as the Upper Bavaria-Nord Police Headquarters, which was newly created in 2009: In boom regions like Erding-Freising-Ebersberg with a growing population and economy, there are decidedly too few police officers. Now, 15 years later, the Free State and the police are finally tackling the problem sustainably. As part of the “The Bavarian Police 2025” (DBP 2025) program, all departments in the area of the former Erding Police Department will be significantly strengthened.
Michael Graf, spokesman for the Ingolstadt Presidium, puts the increase compared to 2010 at 86 positions for inspections in the three districts. The target was set for 141 positions for Erding, 176 for Freising and 126 for Ebersberg. In the district, this means 61 positions for the Ebersberg inspection and 65 for the Poing inspection.
Fourth largest presidium - and over 120 positions for Ebersberg and Poing
According to Graf, the first positions in the new program were allocated on March 1st of this year after previous isolated job increases, and the increase is expected to be completed in the coming years. However, Graf also emphasizes that “the staff additions that took place before March 1st led to noticeable relief in the offices of the Presidium”. If the reform is fully implemented, the Upper Bavaria-North Presidium will be the fourth largest in Bavaria - behind Munich, the riot police and Middle Franconia.
The increase will be in the triple digits, because the police departments responsible across districts, such as those at the airport, the criminal police, the traffic police and the central and technical operations services, will also receive additional positions, reports Graf. And he emphasizes that the positions are not just created on paper and that filling them then fails due to a lack of personnel: “There are enough young civil servants available.”
Regional particularities
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The reform explicitly refers to the development of the individual districts, which was and is particularly dynamic around the airport and other major infrastructure. “The distribution is largely based on the respective workload,” says Graf. “Regional characteristics were taken into account. In the area of police protection, the factors population and area were also taken into account.” The Presidium will keep an eye on regional developments and, if necessary, “react to changes by reallocating positions between individual departments.”
Graf emphasizes that the state police at the airport - the Federal Police alone has one of its largest departments in Germany with 1,500 officers - is also included in the DBP 2025 program. However, a renovation is currently taking place here, so it is not yet clear how many new jobs will be created. The Executive Board is aware “that it is a special department that is geared towards the particularly sensitive security needs of an airport,” said Graf. In addition, the airport police have now also taken on central tasks across Bavaria, including the video coordination centers and air passenger escorts.
1059 police positions for three districts: praise from the union
The DBP 2025 program goes back to the coalition agreement of the first Söder government from 2018. By 2023, 500 new police positions are to be created across Bavaria every year. For the entire Ingolstadt presidential area with 32 offices from Lake Starnberg to Ingolstadt, 3,041 civil servant positions are planned, an increase of 760 compared to the status of the police reform in 2009, according to a statement from Ingolstadt. According to the announcement, the Erding, Freising and Ebersberg districts will have a total of 1,059 jobs in the future. This is what President Günther Gietl recently reported to local politicians at a conference in Freising.
For years, the police union has complained about the lack of staff at the stations. Work stops and colleagues are overloaded. Now there is great praise from the GdP. Florian Leitner, district chairman for Upper Bavaria-Nord, told the editorial team: “This allocation is really great, it helps us a lot. There was a lot of catching up to do.” For Leitner, the Ingolstadt Presidium is one of the big winners of the reform. The union has accompanied this process from the beginning - “and it is already having an effect in terms of relief,” said the police chief commissioner.
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