Lügde: More cases of child pornography in the police

After the police scandal in the lip of the NRW checks-the Ministry of the interior now, officials across the country because of abuse and child pornography. 15 cases are known so far.

By Thomas Drescher

In connection with the mass child abuse and the associated police scandal in Lügde (Kreis Lippe), the NRW-Ministry of the interior officials throughout the country check.

in criminal or disciplinary proceedings

show on Wednesday (13.03.2019) known results, in the last ten years, a total of 15 criminal or disciplinary investigations against police officers in NRW. A spokesman for the interior Ministry confirmed this to the WDR.

14 of these 15 officers are not, or are not currently considered to be police officers in the service. They have been deprived, either temporarily or permanently, the service or are retired.

not Yet checked all of the official

The state office for training of the police (LAFP) in Selm had called these 15 cases in a "first information". Not yet, the Landeskriminalamt and the LAFP themselves are checked. In these authorities, only a fraction of the some 42,000 police officers in NRW, but works.

last weekend, it was reported that one of these officials is with the police in the lip. But he is not involved in the investigation in the case of Lügde. Because of the ownership and Collecting of child pornography, he was sentenced to a monetary penalty. The police wanted him to cancel it, but a labour court had refused to remove him from the service.

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Ursula Enders

cases of abuse in almost all occupational groups

' It will not say whether or not 15 cases in ten years, comparatively a lot or a little, because any comparison is missing, says Ursula Enders. She is a long-standing Director of the bittersweet in Cologne, a counselling centre for victims of sexual abuse. The dark-field in this area would be very large. You've wondered, however, that the number of investigations against police officers is so low.

abuse there is in the case of members of almost all professional groups, Enders. From her consulting practice, individual cases were personally known, in which police officers were also involved in the production of child pornography.

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