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A police applicant suspected of being close to criminal clans may be refused employment until the allegations have been clarified.
This emerges from an urgent decision published on Monday by the Berlin administrative court.
The court thus rejected an urgent application from a man whose application to the state of Berlin for the career of the police force had been rejected because of "spatial, friendly and relational" proximity to criminal milieus.
The Berlin police chief justified the rejection with the "considerable risk of a conflict of interest which is inextricably opposed to the police profession".
The applicant, who was not criminally charged, took legal action against this.
With the urgent application he wanted to sue for his suspension by March 1st or September 1st.
The chamber found the suspicion of proximity to “crime-laden milieus” justifying doubts about the suitability of an applicant's character.
It must be checked whether there are indications of a conflict of interest or the influence of third parties on the performance of the applicant's duties.
Links to clan crime denied
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The applicant, born in 1998, had "close contacts" according to the assessment of the State Office of Criminal Investigation with someone who had already appeared 29 times to the police, in 24 cases as a suspect.
Some of the accomplices had committed crimes that could be attributed to clan crime.
The police applicant denied these connections.
According to the court, further clarification is needed as to whether there are connections to criminal members of an extended family of Arab origin and whether these connections support concerns about the applicant's suitability.
An appeal against the decision can be lodged with the Higher Administrative Court of Berlin-Brandenburg.