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2w ago

Berlin to Begin AI Video Pilot at Kottbusser Tor

Officials say the system will flag unusual movements using behavior-recognition AI that displays only abstract stick-figure imagery to speed police assessments.

Polizeibeamte der Brennpunkt- und Präsenzeinheit (BPE) der Polizei Berlin überprüfen am Kottbusser Tor in Kreuzberg Personen nach dem dort geltenden Waffen- und Messerverbot. Die BPE befasst sich überwiegend mit der polizeilichen Arbeit an den kriminalitätsbelasteten Orten der Direktion 5 (City). Schwerpunkte sind, neben dem Alexanderplatz und der Warschauer Brücke, der Görlitzer Park und das Gebiet rund um das Kottbusser Tor. Die Polizei darf dort künftig KI einsetzen.
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Overview

  • The Interior Ministry announced on Monday that a pilot will start this month at Kottbusser Tor with later deployment planned for Warschauer Straße to target street crime.
  • The technology is designed for behavior- and situation-recognition and will not perform facial or other biometric identification, officials emphasized.
  • On police screens the footage will be abstracted to stick-figure outlines and the AI will only flag potentially unusual activity while human officers make response decisions.
  • A separate object-protection trial for the Rotes Rathaus and the Innenverwaltung office in Klosterstraße is being procured with a vendor to be chosen by the end of September and a roughly year-long test scheduled to begin in December.
  • City documents include cost estimates for 2026–2030 and cite the December 2025 amendment to the Allgemeine Sicherheits- und Ordnungsgesetz as the legal basis, and officials say any wider rollout would follow a successful pilot.