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Hanover (dpa / lni) - Two years after pictures of ailing police stations in Lower Saxony caused a stir, the need for redevelopment has increased even further.
"There has been no improvement," said the head of the police union (GdP), Dietmar Schilff, of the German press agency in Hanover.
In many offices the situation is "catastrophic": garages are crumbling, cables are exposed and the WLAN is usually poor.
The redevelopment backlog at the police has increased in the past two years from around 127 to 225 million euros.
This emerges from a response from the state government to a request from the FDP parliamentary group at the beginning of March.
The Ministry of Finance also attributes the increase to the fact that the building authorities recorded the needs more thoroughly.
In May 2019, the GdP published pictures of poorly patched windows, mold stains and defective toilets.
"That has not changed much," Schilff now explained and emphasized: "The people have to work there."
It is clear to him that the situation after "decades of neglect" cannot be remedied overnight, but that a longer-term concept is needed.
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The Ministry of Finance emphasized that the state government had already increased the funds for the renovation of state-owned buildings - most recently from 79 million to 93 million euros for the year 2021.
On Monday (2.30 p.m.) Finance Minister Reinhold Hilbers (CDU) and Interior Minister Boris Pistorius (SPD) want to visit the completely renovated police station on Herschelstrasse in Hanover.
After a good two years, the work there is about to be completed.
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GdP announcement from 2019 with pictures