Crime: Nationality of suspects shouldn’t be talked about | EUROtoday

The police authorities in Lower Saxony will proceed to not disclose the nationality of suspects in each case. The earlier strategy has confirmed profitable, and no adjustments are deliberate, stated a spokeswoman for the Interior Ministry in Hanover. Previously, the NDR reported about it.

In North Rhine-Westphalia, nevertheless, the police authorities are required to state nationality in info offered to the media. The media decree for the police can be revised accordingly, the NRW Interior Ministry not too long ago introduced. The new regulation is meant to create transparency.

Nationality is simply talked about in distinctive circumstances

The public relations work of the Lower Saxony police is regulated in a round. According to the ministry, info have to be offered in a transparent, factual and comprehensible method and formulated in such a means that it meets the general public's want for info. Personal knowledge of the folks concerned – corresponding to origin or nationality – can solely be given in distinctive circumstances. This is expounded to non-public rights or identifiability. An exception may subsequently be, for instance, if the data is related for a manhunt.

In latest years, there was a broad social debate concerning the extent to which migration is rising the variety of crimes within the nation and which teams are significantly affected by this by which areas of crime.

FDP General Secretary Bijan Djir-Sarai had demanded that authorities ought to usually state the nationality of suspects when offering details about crimes. “People in Germany must feel safe and be able to trust that politicians are taking the problem of foreign crime seriously,” Djir-Sarai instructed Bild am Sonntag.

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