Overview

• Police logged 514 deployments and 153 arrests after roughly a week, based on figures collected early Friday.
• Around 600 officers are assigned across the 16-day festival on the Theresienwiese.
• Fifty-four cameras monitor the grounds, 36 newly upgraded this year after a €350,000 purchase delivering higher-resolution feeds to the Wiesn-Wache.
• Officials describe only small fluctuations compared with the past two years; last year recorded about 1,800 deployments and up to 1,000 offenses.
• This year’s policing places special emphasis on sexual harassment, including upskirting and downblousing, with updated totals due at Sunday’s half-time press conference.