"The patrol cars in many departments are over-aged and have an enormous mileage of more than 300,000 kilometers," criticized the GDP regional chairman Dietary Schiff. In the police area of the Hanover region, two police commissaries are particularly negative. One travels in reflective vest with an old Pass at patrol, which ran for around 400,000 kilometers. Another part has no vehicles at all.
"This makes the action of the police more difficult," noted Christian Hoffmann, GDP press officer. Preventively, one could no longer work like this - merely to ward off acute dangers. And even that is difficult in some cases. "Additional vehicles from other localities must be requested. This can take time, "Hoffmann explained.
But how is the police reflective equipment used in a large-scale danger situation? "We're puzzling ourselves. It's five to twelve. You have to act, "Hoffmann stated.
The demand is clear: more money invested in the long term and not shortened elsewhere. But it is not just the vehicles that have to be exchanged, but something needs to be changed. A safety vest for everyone is already assured, but new helmets are also supposed to be created in the face of the danger. The Ministry of the Interior of Lower Saxony is already testing a new model, which consists of a mixture of titanium and agamid and is intended to withstand larger caliber shells. According to the ministry, the purchase would be decided in autumn.
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