Overview
- Police released a one-year report on Friday showing Ferrum is a roughly 110-officer LKA task force set up to target rising gun crime in Berlin.
- Over the past 12 months Ferrum conducted 7,571 identity checks, 4,249 vehicle inspections and 891 checks of restaurants, cafés and bars.
- Those operations produced 288 arrests, 5,308 temporary detentions, about 80 issued arrest warrants and 51 suspects held in pretrial custody.
- The unit seized 73 functioning firearms and roughly 3,400 rounds of live ammunition during raids and searches.
- Despite the enforcement actions police recorded 261 shootings and 324 firearm threats in H1 2026 and say the continued high violence, often tied to extortion of Turkish‑background shop owners by organized gangs, requires ongoing work and longer-term responses.