Deployments - 21 police officers injured on New Year's Eve
21 police officers were injured during operations on New Year's Eve in North Rhine-Westphalia. This was significantly fewer than a year ago, when 43 officers were injured. The officers were injured by pyrotechnics, for example, as the State Office for Central Police Services reported on Monday in Duisburg in a preliminary assessment. Most of the police officers remained fit for duty, said a spokeswoman. Some had suffered blast trauma.
The number of acts of resistance was 46 (previous year 51). In 48 cases, charges were filed for assaulting police officers. There were 34 in the previous year. According to the figures, more than 6600 police officers were deployed.
From Sunday evening at 6 p.m. to Monday morning at 6 a.m., the police counted a total of 1186 expulsions during New Year's Eve operations (previous year: 1358). 154 people were taken into custody (previous year 215). 26 (previous year 25) were provisionally arrested. 210 people were injured by other people. In the previous year, 238 people were injured.
The number of crimes recorded to date was on a par with the previous year. The police authorities counted 357 assault offenses. There was a slight increase of 22 to 199 cases of dangerous bodily injury. The number of sexual offenses fell by 5 to 27. The majority of these were sexual insults and harassment.
Press release
Read also:
- A clan member is punished here
- Traffic lawyer warns: Don't talk to the police!
- Will he be convicted as Jutta's murderer after 37 years?
- He also wanted to kill his cousin
- The incident in Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, where pyrotechnics led to injuries among police officers during New Year's Eve celebrations, is being investigated by the authorities.
- Despite the high number of police deployments on New Year's Eve in North Rhine-Westphalia's Duisburg, criminality related to assaults and dangerous bodily injury slightly increased compared to the previous year.
- On New Year's Eve operations in North Rhine-Westphalia, including those in Duisburg, the police faced challenges involving pyrotechnics, resulting in 21 injured officers, and also had to handle 1186 expulsions and 154 arrests.
Source: www.stern.de
