Overview

• North Rhine-Westphalia Interior Minister Herbert Reul presented his debut book, Sicherheit. Was sich ändern muss., with the volume due in bookstores on October 14 from Hoffmann und Campe.
• He frames Germany’s security as under unprecedented strain from external actors such as Vladimir Putin and from domestic violent offenders.
• Reul urges broader authority for digital investigations, the reintroduction of data retention, and police use of AI to handle large data sets.
• He writes that young men with migration backgrounds are overrepresented among violent offenders, concluding integration capacity is at its limit and refugee inflows should be curtailed.
• He highlights initiatives from his eight-year tenure and defends a directive to record suspects’ dual citizenship, which drew criticism from the Green coalition partner, saying his aim is to restore trust so voters do not turn to radical parties.