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NRW Will List Multiple Nationalities in Police Crime Statistics After Reul Order

The directive applies retroactively from July 1, with federal reporting to the BKA remaining unchanged.

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Overview

  • North Rhine-Westphalia will now record all nationalities of suspects and victims in its annual police crime statistics instead of listing only one.
  • Interior Minister Herbert Reul argues the change increases transparency and can inform assessments of potential flight risk in custody decisions.
  • Greens, SPD and the Left denounce the measure as stigmatizing dual citizens and accuse it of feeding populist narratives, with Greens issuing unusually sharp criticism inside the CDU–Green coalition.
  • NRW currently stands alone with this practice, as other states and the federal government continue to use single-nationality reporting and only one nationality is transmitted to the BKA.
  • An internal analysis of 2024 data found that one in six suspects with German nationality also had a second citizenship, with the most common combinations German/Turkish (10,307), German/Polish (6,652), German/Russian (3,484), German/Moroccan (3,125) and German/Syrian (2,185).