I sat and read through a NDR (regional TV public network for Hamburg region), and came to this odd story.
As many of you might remember from the July period....the G-20 Summit created a significant number of arrests, and investigations.
So in the past week, it's become obvious that a large assortment of cops are now in some copying-procedure to research and compile files and reports from this period.
NDR says that a fair number of cops are now engaged in this process.
The leadership of the cops? They've gotten to the point of making public comments about the man-hours involved. All total....there's roughly eighty cops who are in the process of either copying or scanning.
Adding to the mess....you have to have data protection involved....so each report has to be individually read...then you make a copy of the report...darkening the names involved, and producing another copy which goes to the requester. You can figure that one single cop might be lucky to read and accomplish the requirement of that one report in a fifteen-minute period.
One official even made the comment that all of this is creating car-loads of documentation.
Where do the cops come from to accomplish this? NDR leaves that out, but you have to assume that a significant number of these cops are guys who'd normally be on duty and looking for suspects or solving crimes.
When does it end? NDR leaves that part out as well.
One can respect the court system and the special investigation going on, but these man-hours required to get to a starting point? It's a sad use of law enforcement.
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