After increasing numbers of police officers on duty have become victims of attacks in recent years, the worrying trend seems to have stopped again. At least for now.
Munich (dpa / lby) - For the first time in years, the number of attacks on police officers in action has fallen again. After violence against police officers in Bavaria had been steadily increasing for years and reached a high in 2020, the statistics recorded a "relatively significant" decline again last year, said a spokesman for the Ministry of the Interior at the request of the German Press Agency in Munich.
This Wednesday (11.30 a.m.) Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann and Justice Minister Georg Eisenreich (both CSU) want to present the latest case numbers for 2021.
According to the Ministry of the Interior, in 2020 the most acts of violence against police officers were recorded in Bavaria since records began in 2010. Accordingly, there were 8,587 incidents of violence against police officers (7.9 percent compared to 2019). More than half of these were physical violence (4746, 5.4 percent). 2,809 police officers were injured (8.1 percent).
