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Two officers of the Baden-Württemberg police may be facing expulsion from the force after they allegedly harassed a Senegalese asylum seeker at a McDonald’s restaurant while on a private day trip to Augsburg.

Special investigator Bruno Jost has completed his report into the police actions regarding Berlin terror attacker Anis Amri and said police should have been able to stop Amri before the attack took place, noting they only monitored him “sporadically”.

Almost half of the individuals suspected of a recorded crime in Berlin last year were individuals who don’t have a German passport, the latest police statistics show.

BERLIN (AP) — Police in Germany and Portugal have raided properties linked to a gang suspected of arranging fake marriages in order to make it easier for Nigerians to come to Europe. Berlin police say they searched 41 homes and

A new report claims Hamburg police attempted to recruit Ahmad A., the failed Palestinian asylum seeker who killed one and injured several others at a Hamburg supermarket last week.

BERLIN (AP) — Police said a man who showed up with a firearm at a high school in southwestern Germany on Monday was still on the loose because they initially arrested the wrong man. Police tweeted that the man they

German Special Police Forces (SEK) Saxony chief Sven Mewes described the harrowing police experience at the Hamburg G20 summit last week saying he had never seen such a level of violence directed toward police officers.

Several officers in Berlin are now under investigation as a new report claims that police knew more about the Berlin Christmas Market terrorist Anis Amri than they had told the government in Berlin. New information from authorities in Berlin shows

BERLIN (AP) — German police raided homes in four states on Wednesday in connection with three people suspected of links to the Islamic State group, authorities said. Apartments and other locations were searched in Berlin, Bavaria, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt on

BERLIN (AP) — Leftist protesters are claiming responsibility for torching a half dozen police transport vehicles in Hamburg ahead of this year’s G-20 summit in Germany. In a message on a leftist forum online, an anonymous poster wrote the attack

BERLIN (AP) — Police have ordered a shopping mall in the western German city of Essen not to open after receiving credible tips of an imminent attack.

Two police in the German city of Hamburg were attacked by a group of several Muslims while out on patrol after the Muslims claimed to have been “provoked” by the officers.

BERLIN (AP) — German police say a man apparently drove a vehicle into people in a central square in the city of Heidelberg, injuring three people, then fled and was shot after being tracked down by officers.

Raids in the UK and the North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) region of Germany have led to the arrests of two Islamist sympathisers who are said to have been aiding the al-Nusra Front in Syria.

BERLIN (AFP) – German police Wednesday carried out dawn raids against far-right suspects accused of plotting attacks on refugees, Jews and police officers, and detained two suspects, authorities said.

Two weeks after New Year’s Eve Cologne police have changed their report on who they identified on the night, saying most of the men were not North Africans but rather were from Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

With figures branding their appearance a provocation to the authorities, police have set up a working group to find out why so many North African men showed up in Cologne on New Year’s Eve.

Despite the closure of the Balkan route that saw the majority of the migrant traffic in 2015, German authorities say thousands of migrants were still able to use the route to reach Germany.

Shocking CCTV footage has come to light which shows an Arab kicking a young German woman down a flight of stairs at a subway station in Berlin.

A Syrian migrant and known Islamic-State sympathiser was stopped at the Danish-German border after he was found to have materials for making explosives – but was let go by German police.

The German Federal Police has released new statistics that show that the massive increase in crime in Germany was a result of Merkel’s open door policy during the migrant crisis.

A police officer in the German city of Rheinberg is under fire after it was revealed that she encouraged a young girl not to report the fact she had been sexually assaulted by a migrant.

Police in Berlin have launched a series of crackdowns on the notorious ‘Riga 94’ left-wing extremists who have been responsible for attacks on police and multiple riots this year. The free reign of left-wing extremism in Berlin may be coming

Organised criminals are benefiting from the wave of Islamic extremists in Germany because the threat of attacks take up so much police resources, leaving the criminals to do as they please.

Three Syrians who overwhelmed a fugitive wanted in an alleged Islamic extremist bomb plot and handed him over to police were hailed as heroes in Germany Tuesday, helping temper anti-migrant sentiment fueled in part by fears of such attacks.

Police in the German city of Ludwigsburg have set up a ‘Migrant Crime Team’ due to the increase in crimes committed by asylum seekers in the region.

Cities and municipalities across Germany are floating the idea of fast tracking migrants to become police officers to help “integrate” them. Gerd Landsberg, managing director of the German Association of Towns and Municipalities (DStGB), is the man behind the idea

European police fear that Islamic State is directing its European fighters to break into civilian homes and kill them in the name of jihad. Ever since the murder of a police officer in Paris who was stabbed to death by an

In the wake of the Brussels terror attacks, threats are being made directly against Germany in the name of Islamic State (IS). Federal Police say they are woefully unprepared and under-equipped, and that any police action during an act of

German police on Sunday searched the homes of two men suspected of having ties to “a terrorist group” in Syria, federal prosecutors said. The anti-terror raids took place near the western city of Mainz. The federal prosecutor’s office said the

German police have clocked up almost half a million hours in overtime since the country reinstated border controls with Austria last month. At the same time some members have been forced to put in 80-hour working weeks just to keep the force’s

The interior ministers of a number of German states have been forced to cancel next year’s ‘Blitzer Marathon’, in which police forces across the country ramp up their efforts to speed check motorists, thanks to the pressure put on police