The police union (GdP) is unhappy with the way travelers are now being checked at the borders with Poland, the Czech Republic and Switzerland. "In some cases, cross-border roads have been occupied, this has also already led to the first traffic jams," said the GdP chairman for the Federal Police, Andreas Roßkopf, to the German Press Agency on Tuesday. The union had adjusted after the announcement of Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser (SPD) to "flexible, mobile and situation-adapted controls" and not to "blunt stationary fixed control points as at the Austrian border."
But that is what one experiences now at these border sections - but without the equipment necessary for such an approach. One must not allow that police officers have to work here "under the tailgate" without any weather protection, without technical equipment and without professionally equipped checkpoints for an extended period of time, said the trade unionist. Investigating officers and the technical equipment to quickly read cell phones of smugglers were also missing. That now from stations and airports policemen and policewomen had been withdrawn and sent to the border, had led to resentment among those affected, said Roßkopf.
