This morning, it came out in the German news media (several sources) that in 2018....that 71 German federal policemen....were injured while trying to carry out a deportation order. Of the total attacked? 284. So it was roughly one out of every four cops on a deportation 'mission'....came up with an injury. This meant a clinic or hospital visit, and likely time off....anywhere from a day or two....to a month.
The Interior Ministry even came to admit that just over 1,600 deportation orders had to be cancelled at the airport because of 'resistance'.
A growing problem? Since 2015 (the peak year for asylum requests), these deportation events have become a regular weekly event, and require an enormous amount of patience of the police trying to carry out the order.
Once the deportee starts the violent assault routine? The cops will try to use appropriate resistance and end up using restraint items to continue the job. If the resistance was enough (several of the officers injured).....then the routine ends right there.
The problem here....as cancelled deportations mount....the frustrated public looks back at the Interior Ministry and the politicians as the focus of this. You can also add to the increasing problem in that cops who've been on this 'missions' are growing a bit strained and see their job in a different manner. Their view of migrants and immigrants? Why would you not be negative about their situation, if you were a cop faced with this behavioral problem?
Changes likely coming? For at least two years, there's been chatter about bringing the failed applicants immediately to some 'camp' in Germany, where they'd be handled in a more direct way (short of saying 'jail'). What do they mean by 'immediately'? Some people have suggested that when the failed application is stamped....it'd be delivered by several cops, and they take you at that very moment from the building or facility. I'm guessing that this idea will be tossed around a bit more. The chief problem here is that you are involving more and more police (man-power) into a highly chaotic event, which would take up four cops for the majority of one single day to get one single guy from the compound, to the airplane.
A cost factor? Eventually, someone is going to add this up and realize that per each failed asylum applicant, there's over 10,000 Euro of man-power, effort, and airline cost involved. That's ten-thousand that you could have spent on schools, bridge renovation, or retiree pensions.
But resolving this? It would mean that you'd have to admit there's a serious problem, and I just don't see any of the CDU or SPD coalition folks willing to take that kind of stand.
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