More crime: police see new focal point in the station district

some time ago the state police had the Situation in the Frankfurt station district in the handle with the daily checks, larger raids and investigations against the so-called behind men who are in the drug trade. The investigation unit, which was founded in 2016, as the conditions were untenable, could boast of successes.

Catherine Iskandar

editor in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.

Now, however, the police notes that the development in the quarter, as they took with the beginning of the Corona-the time to run its course, has surprised even them. On Monday police President Gerhard Bereswill led advertisers talks with Gastro noun and commercial. With the result that the police tightened now, your security concept for the quarter once again. There should be more staff and more controls. Also, the police take increasing complaints and Worries and Fears of local residents, Business people true and commuters about the conditions in the station area, it says in a statement. The fact they wanted to respond now.

garbage, excrement, public consumption of drugs

The list of grievances, calling now the police in public, is long: The speech is garbage, excrement, public consumption of drugs and alcohol, coupled with reckless behavior and the Siege of the sidewalks by large groups of sick and aggressive bed Searches for learning. The fight against these abuses fall within the jurisdiction of the city. Further, it is stated in the message, you have, however, found also "new crime focal points. So the road to prostitution again. There were "increasingly larger groups of young men in the area around the train station North side, the pester in addition to the sale of drugs, passing girls and women, and, increasingly, aggressively occur. The appropriate complaints were brought to the police, to confirm these observations.“

The police had kept its "commitment to the security of the citizens in the station area resistant high," a spokesman for more. The current Situation "makes it necessary to increase the Force again. It may not be that people in certain streets to feel safe.“ You are not going to allow that "this negative development continues," and the successes of the past years offset would be made, said police President Bereswill.