Ministry of the Interior contradicts Horst Seehofer: No federal police in the centers of anchorage

According to the Ministry of the Interior, there is no provision providing for the use of the federal police in the future in so-called "anchoring facilities" For asylum seekers. This is apparent from a response given by the authority to SPIEGEL to a request from the Greens parliamentary group. "Currently, the use of the federal police in AnkER centers is not planned," it is said in the letter.

Thus, the authority contradicts his own minister Horst Seehofer, who spoke until a few weeks ago, also the Federal Police to guard the facilities

In the "Master Plan Migration" presented by the CSU leader Seehofer last week, the use of the federal police directly on site in the anchor centers is no longer explicitly mentioned. Point 32, dealing with measures to "optimize the asylum procedure" in the "Arrival, Decision and Return Centers" (AnkER), now states: "Greater involvement of the Federal police in Repatriation and Dublin transfers and where appropriate, the personal reinforcement of the Federal Police for the return escort. "

(19659006) In the Coalition Commission of 5 July, the CDU, the CSU and the SPD agreed on the following wording:" In order to further accelerate the return, the Federal Government will make repatriations for the Dublin cases of the Anker facilities, as far as the respective countries wish. "In the video: Seehofer and his plan

From the point of view of the spokesperson of the parliamentary group of the. Interior Greens, Irene Mihalic, the federal police would not be able to perform additional tasks in anchor centers or beyond. "No wonder that unlike Seehofer himself, the ministry Federal Office of the Interior does not expect the federal police to participate in the anchoring centers, "she told SPIEGEL," it was very doubtful how the federal minister of Inside for weeks with a so-called blueprint, without being able to mmer the staffing requirements, "said Mihalic

As follows additional responses from the Federal Ministry of the Interior, signed by Secretary of State Markus Kerber, There is still a significant deficit of human resources to the federal police. As a result, there is a difference of 3043.5 between jobs and actual jobs. According to the Ministry of the Interior, there are 6035 candidates – but also 4072 civil servants who will retire by 2023. "On the whole, there is a big gap between the demand and the reality ", said the interior minister of Greenland Mihalic.