Offenbach (dpa / lhe) – Emergency call bottlenecks like on the evening of the Hanau attack a year and a half ago should be a thing of the past thanks to the new police headquarters in Southeast Hesse. The emergency calls from the entire Main-Kinzig district as well as from the city and the Offenbach district are now being processed centrally in the control center of the Presidium. In the event of an increased emergency call volume and if all inquiry stations are occupied, they will be forwarded to the Frankfurt police headquarters thanks to an overflow, as police spokesman Thomas Leipold explained on Thursday in Offenbach. “There is no longer an emergency call.”
On February 19, 2020, a 43-year-old German shot and killed nine people in Hanau for racist motives, before presumably killing his mother and ultimately himself. The 22-year-old Vili Viorel Păun pursued the perpetrator in his car after the first shots in downtown Hanau in order to stop him and repeatedly dialed the emergency number 110 in vain. Shortly afterwards, he was shot dead in his car by the assassin. As can be seen from a recently published paper by the Hanau public prosecutor’s office, the capacity bottlenecks at the Hanau emergency number are said to have been complained by police officers years before the attack.
The new Presidium, which offers jobs for around 900 employees, was put into operation at the beginning of August. In addition to the Offenbach police station, it includes numerous office and meeting rooms as well as a prisoner collection point, the only barrier-free detention cell in Hesse with a raised sleeping space, and a multi-purpose hall that can be used for staff meetings and as emergency accommodation in addition to sports.
A high-tech laboratory road enables the evaluation of traces according to the latest standards, said the first chief detective and head of the detection service, Thomas Antl. It is precisely in this area that the new Presidium will achieve a leap in time in investigative work. “We have changed from a caterpillar to a butterfly.” This enables you to make traces more visible than ever before.
The new presidium was originally supposed to be completed in 2014, but the project was delayed due to, among other things, a legal dispute between two bidders. The project was implemented as part of a public-private partnership (PPP) within a construction period of three years from the laying of the foundation stone. The client is the State of Hesse and the partner is, among others, the project management company Goldbeck Public Partner GmbH, which operates the building and also acts as a landlord. The investments for the new building amounted to around 160 million euros.
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