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The schools in Dortmund and Lünen may not open until August 10, 2022, but the police in Dortmund and Lünen are already promoting more mindfulness and consideration in traffic - and at the same time appealing to parents to let their children walk to school.

Ministers Herbert Reul (Home Affairs), Lutz Lienenkämper (Finance) and Peter Biesenbach (Justice) present the progress report of their task force of police officers, tax investigators and public prosecutors.

Reul: "North Rhine-Westphalia is no longer a honeypot for criminal clans" - 10.2 million euros confiscated

Fortunately, the number of pickpocketings has been falling for years - in 2021 in Dortmund, it has just fallen again by around 25 percent compared to the previous year. To ensure that this remains the case, the police become alert as soon as they detect an increase. Over the past few days and weeks, officers have noticed that pickpocketing on…

In future, a latest-generation inspection vehicle will be used for heavy goods vehicle inspections and for monitoring commercial passenger and goods traffic.

Bielefeld / Mitte - A burglar was arrested on Sunday, 20.02.2022, after calling the police himself. The young man had realized that he could no longer get out of the building and finally called the emergency services. A magistrate issued a remand warrant.

Just under a year after the start of the pilot project to test the distance electro impulse device (DEIG) in Dortmund, the Dortmund police are equipping further patrol areas, and the use of the colloquially known Taser has proved very successful, according to the NRW Minister of the Interior, Herbert Reul.