Overview

• Interior Minister Armin Schuster’s draft, approved by the cabinet last week, has been published for consultation and is moving into hearings and Landtag debate.
• The proposal expands powers to include AI-driven data analysis, biometric video surveillance, surveillance of encrypted communications, covert automated license-plate checks, police drones and anti-drone tools, and wider bodycam use including in private homes.
• Tasers would become standard equipment across police units, which the ministry frames as de-escalation, while critics warn of potential severe injuries.
• Greens and The Left reject the draft as freedom-hostile and argue it fails to implement constitutional court requirements stemming from the 2019 law ruling.
• BSW says it will closely review the plan and calls for a balance of freedom and security, as passage remains uncertain for the CDU–SPD minority that has ruled out relying on AfD votes.