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Stuttgart / Berlin (dpa / lsw) - The police union (GdP) would like corona infections to be treated as an industrial accident during work.
The union therefore sent a letter to the chairman of the conference of interior ministers, Baden-Württemberg's interior minister Thomas Strobl (CDU), demanding that this "loophole in the law on industrial accidents" be closed.
In daily work, it is often impossible for police officers to keep the minimum distance to other people required due to the pandemic, said the deputy GdP federal chairman Dietmar Schilff on Friday.
Naturally, direct contact with other people in the police force cannot be prevented.
The GdP also announced a nationwide model process for the recognition of work accidents in the event of a corona infection, as almost all federal states have not yet recognized this.
In the past few months there has been an increase in cases nationwide in which police officers contracted the corona virus while on duty.
Applications for recognition of an infection as a work-related accident have been rejected by the row.
"However, the higher the risk of infection, the greater the care the employer has to take for his officers who are in situations that are dangerous to health in the course of their duties," said Schilff.
The GdP would like to achieve that the civil service law in the federal government and in the states is changed accordingly.
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Communication from the GdP