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Regulations on police training partly unconstitutional

The outgoing black-green state government in Hesse has once again suffered a legal setback: Some of the regulations on police training violate the constitution. According to an announcement by the State Court in Wiesbaden on Wednesday, the so-called "Normenkontrollantrag" (motion to review the...

View of the Justitia above the entrance to a district court. Photo.aussiedlerbote.de
View of the Justitia above the entrance to a district court. Photo.aussiedlerbote.de

Process - Regulations on police training partly unconstitutional

The outgoing black-green state government in Hesse has once again suffered a legal setback: Some of the regulations on police training violate the constitution. According to an announcement by the State Court in Wiesbaden on Wednesday, the so-called "Normenkontrollantrag" (motion to review the constitution) filed by the former SPD and FDP opposition in the state parliament in connection with police training in the state is "partially justified". Certain provisions of the Hessian Higher Education Act are "unconstitutional".

At the end of 2021, the black-green coalition had bundled police training and further education at the new Hessian University of Applied Sciences for Public Management and Security (HöMS) in Wiesbaden. This also teaches public administration. To put it simply, the SPD and FDP complained, among other things, that the academic freedom of the HöMS was being stripped away. The Ministry of the Interior could "rule through" this university. According to the more than 60-page ruling by the state's highest court, the regulations that have now been declared unconstitutional must be revised by the end of 2024.

After a decade of black-green coalitions in Hesse, a new governing alliance between the CDU and SPD is on the horizon after the state elections in October 2023. The previous black-green state government had also suffered legal defeats on issues such as the special coronavirus fund and the salaries of civil servants.

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Source: www.stern.de

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