Overview
- A Besondere Aufbauorganisation now deploys up to 100 specially trained officers from riot units and the state criminal police to intensify investigations and halt armed clashes early.
- The interior administration is reviewing additional investigative powers while maintaining weapons- and knife-ban zones to reduce access to illegal firearms.
- Police expanded covert and specialist operations aimed at dismantling the structures behind recent street gun violence.
- Officers responded to seven incidents this month involving shots fired or threatened, indicating an uptick over previous months.
- A man wounded outside a Kreuzberg venue on Thursday is the subject of an attempted-homicide investigation now led by a murder commission, and police count 884 weapons-threat or shooting cases this year as of October 23.