More police officers on the street in the neighborhood

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Berlin (dpa / bb) - More police officers than before should be on the streets of Berlin's neighborhoods on foot and be direct contacts for people.

45 so-called contact area officers began their full-time service in districts outside the city center on May 3, as Interior Senator Andreas Geisel (SPD) and Police President Barbara Slowik said in Wedding on Tuesday.

The police want to be more present and closer to the people.

A test phase with around 40 of these police officers in four parts of the city began in December.

The number of now almost 90 police officers with this task should be increased in the next few years, said Slowik.

The concept is called “KoB 100” (contact area service 100), whereby the number should stand for 100 percent on the street.

These contact area officers have been around for decades, according to the police.

Over the years, however, they have increasingly taken on other tasks such as assignments in patrol cars and were no longer so present as direct contacts.

Now they should spend most of their working hours in contact with people again.

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