Overview
- North Rhine-Westphalia’s interior minister launched “Sicherheit. Was sich ändern muss.” in Düsseldorf, with Hoffmann und Campe set to publish it for sale on October 14.
- Reul advocates broader digital investigative powers, the introduction of data retention, and police use of AI to process large data sets.
- He argues Germany faces heightened threats from abroad and within and links security challenges to limits on refugee inflows where integration capacity is strained.
- The book highlights his campaigns against so‑called clan crime, child sexual abuse and cybercrime, and reiterates his push to record suspects’ dual citizenship, a stance criticized by Greens and SPD figures including Sebastian Fiedler.
- Positioning the text as a trust‑building effort, Reul calls the AfD a major danger to democracy and stresses incremental, deliverable steps over grand promises.