Neubrandenburg (dpa/mv) - The approximately 2,000 police officers in eastern Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania now officially have two new bosses. President is 61-year-old Thomas Dabel, his vice-president is Gunnar Mächler. State Minister of the Interior Christian level (SPD) officially introduced the new management duo of the police headquarters in Neubrandenburg on Wednesday. The Neubrandenburg Presidium, one of two presidiums in the north-east, includes employees in the three districts of Mecklenburgische Seenplatte, Vorpommern-Rügen and Vorpommern-Greifswald. A special feature is the border with Poland.
One of the biggest challenges is recruiting new employees for the police in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, said Dabel. The country actually wanted a total of 6,200 police officers by 2021. This was unsuccessful, mainly because there were not enough suitable applicants.
The new President Dabel comes from Bartmannshagen (West Pomerania-Rügen), he had been on the management staff in Neubrandenburg for three years until 2019 and was previously Vice President in the Presidium in Rostock. He succeeds Nils Hoffmann-Ritterbusch, who had moved to Schwerin as a police inspector in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Vice-President Mächler comes from Schleswig-Holstein, has been active in the north-east since the early 1990s and was head of the inspection in Anklam for the last ten years.
