German police fired 85 bullets in 2011

The use of firearms on duty at the police declined slightly in Germany: Last year, officers fired 36 times at a person. Six people died and 15 were injured.
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Schwerin - 85 cartridges fired police officers in Germany in 2011, Germany in pursuit of criminals, 49 of these were warning shots. Gave the police 36 times from aimed shots. While 15 people were injured and six killed, as is evident from the statistics of the German Police University in Münster, Westphalia.

This was presented on Tuesday in Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern's Minister Lawrence Caffier (CDU) as chairman of the Conference of Interior Ministers (IMK). "Our police officers are not" thugs in uniform. "You are only obliged to the law and fulfill the task that we as a society to them, based on the rule of law," said Caffier.

The German Police University raises annually for the IMK data on service use of weapons. In 2010, seven people had come by a police bullet killed and 17 people were injured. Overall, Germany has 37 times shot at people, 59 warning shots were fired.

"It is gratifying that the tendency of all forms of firearms by police officers against persons is declining," said Caffier. It was important that the interior minister and interior senators showed the citizens that the police officers exercising their constitutional right of the monopoly of the state legally.

The number of shots on dangerous, sick or injured animals fell - by about five percent on 8812 cases (2010: 9336). In almost all situations, the animals were freed from their suffering, according to IMC from injuries resulting from traffic accidents.