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Hanover (dpa / lni) - After protests from parts of the student body against a police officer as a lecturer, Lower Saxony's Interior Minister Boris Pistorius praised the attitude of the university management.
The SPD politician wrote in a letter to the President of the University of Hanover, Volker Epping, that he did not give in to “the baseless and ideologized accusations of Asta and the teacher”.
It annoys him very much that the two bodies refused to enter into a debate with police officers at all.
The Bild newspaper first reported on Pistorius' letter.
The police officer has a teaching position at the Institute of Sociology this summer semester.
From the perspective of the Social Sciences Advisory Council, active work in the police stands in the way of a critical examination of one's own institution. The police as an institution comes into the public eye “almost daily due to structural abuse of power, racism and right-wing extremism”. The General Student Committee (Asta) Hanover announced in a press release in mid-April its own critical series of events with topics such as police violence and alternatives to the police. "Everyone except cops" is cordially invited.
Pistorius was outraged by the "blanket accusations of the Asta, coupled with the total refusal to enter a debate at all".
The minister continued: "We know from many independent studies that the police enjoy a very high level of trust in our society."
The lecturer in question is known in the Lower Saxony police as an "extremely open, reflective and committed police officer and sociologist".
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