VISITS BY THE FEDERAL AGENCY Lighting Holding stocks of mattresses X Smoke detectors Instruction about rights X Structural conditions Use of peepholes in sanitary facilities Custody record book Recommendation: 1 – FEDERAL POLICE Bremerhaven Federal Police Station Cuxhaven Federal Police Station X Freiburg Federal Police Station Freiburg Railway Station Duty Room X Friedrichshafen Federal Police Station Freyung Federal Police District Office X Hof Federal Police Station Konstanz Federal Police District Office Münster Federal Police District Office Neumünster Federal Police Station X X X X X X Offenburg Federal Police District Office Passau Federal Police Station X Singen Federal Police Station X Waldshut-Tiengen Federal Police Station X Weil am Rhein Duty Room X X X X Zwiesel Federal Police Station X In the period under review the Federal Agency visited 16 Federal Police stations and monitored one forced return by air. X bility for processing those claiming asylum and for dealing with people smuggling crimes thus principally fell to Passau Federal Police Station. This meant that the whole of Freyung Federal Police District Office was severely overstretched both in terms of staffing and facilities. Despite the huge amount of work which needed to be done in this field, however, the Federal Agency noted the officers’ positive and constructive attitude. This was also in evidence in Neumünster Federal Police Station (which was significantly less overstretched), where the Federal Agency met one officer who had, at his own initiative, purchased trans- 1.1 – FEDERAL POLICE STATIONS Of all the police stations which the Federal Agency visited it was those belonging to Freyung Federal Police District Office which especially stood out. The District Office’s area of responsibility includes a section of the border with Austria across which the majority of refugees entered Germany in 2015. Responsi- 22