Crime in Berlin-Mitte : Alexanderplatz has become safer

The Alexanderplatz has become safer. This shows a current statistics of the Interior, in answer to a parliamentary question of the SPD interior expert Tom Schreiber. Accordingly, the number of violent offences dropped compared to the previous year, from 1021 to 617 in the current year (until the end of November).

419 body injuries were registered until the end of November in the year 2018, significantly less than in 2017 (670). Expected that the number will surpass, but until the end of December, the of the offences of 2015 and 2016. At the time, 423 and 440 injuries had been counted. The dangerous body injuries have halved compared to the previous year even almost. 128 2017 were registered, 63 were in the current year.

Also, the number of robbery and Pickpocketing has declined significantly. So in 1854 (peak) of these incidents occurred in the year 2016, 2017, it was still 1066. By the end of November 2018, a total of 748 robbery and pickpocketing were recorded in steels, of which 29 are Time-consuming and 719 Times bag theft.

the positive Trend of The criminal offences covered by development on Alexanderplatz had emerged in the last few months. In addition to the Alex-guard, which was inaugurated in December 2017, and in the next to the Berlin police, Federal police and public order office staff to sit, also applies to the determination group (EC) Alex, the 13 police officers belong to, as the reason for the success.

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The EC Alex intervenes, when it comes to robbery or assault. Authorities internal critics complain that the high staff costs for the EC Alex go to the expense of other high-Crime areas. For example, the use of group had been dissolved in the Small zoo.