Skyline view: Swimming pools rely on security services

Wiesbaden. On days with a high number of visitors, Hessian outdoor pools rely on the help of security services. This is reported by those responsible for pools in Offenbach, Fulda and Darmstadt, among others. However, these are mostly preventive measures, violence and aggressive quarrels are rare. “99 percent of the Hessian pools have this under control,” said the chairwoman of the state association Hesse in the Federal Association of German Swimming Champion, Michaela Fisseler-Weinrich. – “In Hesse, outdoor and indoor swimming pools are by no means a crime focus,” said a spokesman for the Ministry of the Interior Wiesbaden. The number of cases has been declining over the past three years. –

In the Rosenhöhe forest swimming pool in Offenbach, for example, security guards have been on duty for years, as the chairman of the first Offenbach swimming club, Matthias Wörner, said. Trigger be one Pepper spray attack on a cashier been. With the support of the security service, the pool staff would have “everything under control” even on hot weekends, said Wörner. (dpa)

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