Overview
- Brandenburg's police have opened a 360‑degree security centre as a new coordination hub intended to identify, assess and counter hybrid threats such as sabotage, coordinated fires, drone incidents and online mobilization.
- The centre held its first meeting at the Potsdam police headquarters and will convene weekly to produce joint situation pictures and to coordinate investigations and deployments.
- Officials say the move follows a series of attacks on power infrastructure, including damage to a substation near the Jänschwalde power plant, that authorities view as evidence of rising hybrid risks.
- Interior Minister Jan Redmann and Police President Oliver Stepien said the platform can quickly bring in the domestic intelligence service, fire and disaster authorities, critical‑infrastructure operators and the Bundeswehr when needed.
- Authorities stressed the initiative is in an early implementation phase and said it aims to reduce fragmented information, speed operational decisions and better protect the public and key services from spillover effects of foreign unrest and online calls to violence.