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Berlin (dpa / bb) - 249 arrests, 2750 complaints, 10,000 drug packages found and 100,000 euros confiscated - that is the balance sheet of the focus unit of the Berlin police launched a year ago for the crime areas in the city center.
In addition, there is an "immeasurable" increase in security, "the police announced on Tuesday.
The 125 police officers of the focus and presence unit (BPE) were mainly on Alexanderplatz, Görlitzer Park, Kottbusser Tor, on the Warschauer Brücke and in North Neukölln.
The residents and business people said they were "mostly very positive about the visible police presence".
The unit in uniform started its service in January 2020 and should increase the visible presence of the police in the difficult places with a lot of drug trafficking, pickpockets and brawls.
The police officers should be very familiar with the neighborhoods and be constant contacts for residents and business people.
The members of the unit are between 21 and 56 years old, it said on Tuesday.
Many could use another language: English, Turkish, Arabic, Russian, Slovak, Polish, Serbian, Croatian, Romanian, Spanish, Persian and Kumyk, which is spoken in the North Caucasus.
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The police want to present the work of the unit on the Internet in the next few days: on Wednesday virtually in the story of the Instagram account of the Berlin police.
On Thursday and Friday, the operations can be followed on the Twitter account @polizeiberlin_E.
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