Overview

• Interior Minister Georg Maier’s draft expands police authority to impose electronic ankle monitors on suspects without judicial approval
• The reform would equip officers with Taser devices for temporary incapacitation in high-risk situations
• Proposed AI-driven investigative tools would enable biometric and online data matching, raising privacy and misuse fears
• Die Linke and AfD factions have signaled they will not support the bill in its current form due to civil liberties objections
• CDU, SPD and BSW coalition lacks a parliamentary majority and BSW is demanding stricter safeguards to balance security with citizens’ freedoms