Scandal in Greifswald: Ex-police officer returns despite data abuse!
Scandal in Greifswald: Ex-police officer returns despite data abuse!
In a controversial judgment, the Greifswald administrative court decided that Dan Rachow, a former police officer with connections to the AfD, can return to the police service. Although Rachow repeatedly misused internal databases during his term in order to obtain personal information from political opponents, this unethical behavior was only classified as "medium -heavy service offense". Rachow had asked data such as birth data, home addresses and telephone numbers of at least 20 people for months, mainly from the left spectrum. In a particularly alarming case, a right-wing extremist bus driver contacted one of these affected people, which raised the suspicion of possible data transfer by Rachow, reports Influential individual events, such as querying concert data from a pop singer or personal data from women from Baden-Württemberg, illustrate how little protected the data affected are. The Berlin data protection officer has repeatedly pointed out the sensitivity of the matter; Control over the database access is often inadequate and is not closely monitored by the police. In Hessen, for example, only every 200th data query is checked, and here it becomes clear that systematic abuse of police officers is widespread and can quickly lead to right -wing extremists, as has been observed in several cases.A call to improve controls
The situation in the police databases urgently requires improved control and transparent supervision to prevent abuse. External instances to check police data queries could help to do so that this abuse no longer takes place in secret. As LTO , there are already initial considerations for the creation of police officers who are supposed to act regardless of the police.
It remains to be seen whether and to what extent such measures can actually be realized. However, the fact is that the Rachow case and the associated scandals only represent the tip of the iceberg. If the trust of the citizens is to be recovered into the police, the handling of sensitive data must be fundamentally covered and reformed.
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