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When you hear that, you get the impression that the Frankfurt police have to completely reorganize themselves.

Is the agency so bad?

Katharina Iskandar

Editor in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.

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No it doesn't.

But the many events have made it necessary to take a closer look: Where are the police?

This discussion has been going on for a long time, and it has been going on very intensively in Hesse for two and a half years, with the emergence of right-wing extremist chats in the 1st Frankfurt police station.

And now again with regard to the allegations against individual officers of the SEK.

Without going into the details, only the scope and the criminal law relevance of the investigative proceedings show that it is not about small things, but about serious violations.

Violations that will not be tolerated.

You were a member of the expert staff that dealt with the restructuring of the special task force.

Yes.

And I fully support the final report.

It was important that we looked very closely at the development of the unit and then also at the structures of the entire special units in Hesse and thought about how things could be changed in the long term.

I would also like to make it very clear that some people have portrayed themselves as victims in the media and have tried to talk themselves out of it, with false claims, that is unacceptable.

This annoyed not only me, but also many colleagues, because it shows that these officials obviously have not reflected on or understood anything.

In addition, they specifically tried to unsettle the public by asking: What can the police still do now?

And what's the answer?

I can only say: the Frankfurt police can and always have been able to perform their tasks professionally.

Even in the weeks of the restructuring, we were fully operational at all times and were supported by other units in individual areas.

Of course, precautions are always taken.

I think this has been deliberately misrepresented.

And that is absurd.

If you take the subject a little further, the question of transparency arises.

Many police officers say they don't even know what is written in the chats.

It couldn't be that bad.

How do you deal with that?

This is always a difficult subject because you can't just publish investigative content such as the pictures that have been sent around for clarity. You would make yourself liable to prosecution. But of course we see the problem. We know the feedback that a lot of people think it's about a few joke pictures and caricatures. And that the police leadership and the public prosecutor's office are shooting at sparrows with cannons.

We said back then in connection with the 1st Revier that the only way to make it clear to employees that this is a fundamental issue is to show the pictures.

We did that in a meeting with all the executives of the agency who were supposed to get these messages across.

I still remember, as if it had been yesterday, when some of them came up to me during the break and were horrified.

Now we are in such a situation again.

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with the same problem.