The start of the holiday season in North Rhine-Westphalia is causing headaches for the state and federal police at Düsseldorf Airport. The officials expect significant challenges from passenger control to aircraft handling. The German Federal Police Union fears the worst. Chairman Heiko Teggatz said ”
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’: ‘Tumults will no longer be preventable. That’s absolutely certain for me.” He “just hope that not too many passengers will have to suffer from it,” Teggatz continued.
According to the report, the Interior Ministry of NRW is intensively planning how to deal with the expected chaos. “Due to the current problems with passenger processing, the police headquarters in Düsseldorf has issued a separate assignment,” said a spokesman for “RP online”.
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According to Teggatz, the G7 summit in Elmau, Bavaria, is causing further problems. “We, the Federal Police, don’t have any units left that we can send there to reinforce, because pretty much all the units available are in Elmau to secure the G7 summit,” said Teggatz.
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However, maintaining aviation security has absolute priority and will be ensured, according to Jens Floren, spokesman for the federal police in North Rhine-Westphalia. But: “Any control operation by police forces of the Federal Police is definitely excluded, the forces are not qualified for that,” says Flören. However, in an absolute emergency, federal police officers could instruct the passengers and bring the luggage baskets back.
In any case, the head of Düsseldorf Airport agrees with the travelers: “We fear that the journeys of numerous passengers will begin or end with irregularities, delays and long queues,” he told the portal.