Overview

• Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt announced that temporary checks and turnbacks at all German land borders will continue beyond September.
• The government is organizing further charter deportation flights to Afghanistan and Syria after mid-July’s removal of 81 convicted serious offenders.
• The police union reports that the 14,000 Bundespolizei officers assigned to border duties have faced very high workloads, prompting cancelled training and restricted leave approvals.
• Gewerkschaft der Polizei leaders say redeploying reserve and mobile unit personnel to borders has created support gaps at airports and train stations.
• Union officials caution that the onset of football league travel and rising fan movement may deepen staffing shortages during escalating crime and violence at railway hubs.