Overview

• An Interior Ministry reply to a Green Party inquiry confirms roughly 3.15 million overtime hours for Bavarian police in the past year.
• Paid overtime fell sharply from about 215,000 hours in 2022 to roughly 95,000 in 2024, equating to about 3% of extra work, with Greens estimating more than €60 million in state savings.
• Workload hotspots include the Munich police headquarters with about 123 hours per officer and the State Criminal Police Office with about 143, with Oberbayern Süd averaging 99.
• Swabia shows sustained pressure: Schwaben Nord averaged about 95 hours per person in 2024, while Schwaben Süd/West jumped more than 22% to over 122,000 total hours but logged 62 per head.
• The government cites exceptional deployments such as the G7 summit, farmers’ protests, Euro 2024, the Munich Security Conference and Oktoberfest, while the Greens warn of health and recruiting risks and propose structural task shifts.