The small police station, which opened on Berlin's Alexanderplatz in December 2017 after a long political debate, cost around one million euros.
The area with - normally - a good 350,000 passers-by every day hadn't gotten off the headlines because of shoplifting, robbery and fights.
But then Interior Senator Andreas Geisel and his SPD were able to wrest the house from their coalition partners, the Greens and the Left.
The police and the public order office increased their presence on the "Alex" significantly.
In fact, the number of registered crimes in 2018 fell by around 700 compared to the previous year to just under 6,800. But in 2019 it was officially exactly 7,480 again