C.
Presentation of the main results of the Federal Agency’s visits
Neither the visit reports of the Federal Agency nor the statements of the supervisory authorities are reproduced in full. Only a summary of the contents of the main results is presented
below.
I.
Federal Police
The Federal Agency was provided with an updated list of detention facilities by the Federal
Ministry of the Interior in the summer of 2010. Accordingly, a total of 163 facilities of the Federal Police are in existence in the entire federal territory. The list however also includes cells
which are no longer in use or the use of which is soon to be terminated.
The Federal Agency aims to visit facilities from all nine directorates per period under review
where possible16. It visited facilities which fall within the organisational sphere of the Federal
police directorates in Munich, Berlin, Hanover, Stuttgart, Sankt Augustin and Pirna in the
period under review from 1 May 2010 to 31 December 2011. Facilities had previously been
visited from the organisational sphere of Bad Bramstedt, Berlin and Sankt Augustin Federal
police directorates (cf. Annual Report 2009/2010).
1. Munich Airport and Munich Main Station Federal Police Stations, as well
as Munich Eastern Station Federal Police Station in May 2010
On 19 and 20 May 2010, the Federal Agency carried out an inspection visit at the Munich
and Munich Airport Federal Police Stations, the second-largest German airport after Frankfurt Airport, as well as the Munich Eastern Station Federal Police Station.
The Federal Agency inspected the detention and the return areas of Munich Airport. A total
of two individuals were in custody at different airport stations at the time of the inspection.
Furthermore, the Federal Agency found a person who was to be returned with her small
child. One individual was in custody at the time of the inspection of Munich Main Station
Federal Police Station.
Recommendations of the Federal Agency
The privacy of a person is also to be respected
in detention at all times. Hence, the need to
use a wide-angel spy-hole in the toilet doors
of the detention areas of the Federal Police
Station at Munich Airport (North station) and of
the Federal Police Station at Munich Eastern
Station should be examined. The legal evaluation of wide-angel spy-holes is referred to on
page 24.
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Reaction of the Federal Ministry of the
Interior
Although considerable importance is to be
allotted to respect for privacy, it is said that
the wide-angel spy-hole could not be removed from the toilet doors of the detention cells for deployment-related reasons.
As an alternative to the use of the wideangel spy-hole, opening the toilet doors
could be considered if suspicion (e.g. staying longer in the toilet) made it appear
necessary to take a look. In this respect,
taking a look through the wide-angel spy-
These are the following directorates: Bad Bramstedt, Berlin, Hanover, Koblenz, Munich, Pirna, Sankt Augustin,
Stuttgart, Frankfurt/Main.
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