German federal police will be allowed to shoot down drones, Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said on Wednesday, following a recent string of sightings which Berlin has blamed on Russia.
Phrases like ‘predictive policing’ are in the German press following an announcement that Baden-Württemberg will adopt a controversial surveillance software. So what is US firm Palantir offering and how will it change policing in Germany?
Officers of the law demand a degree of respect, but there are some things to know about speaking to police in German that may not be obvious to foreigners. Here are some things you can say (and some you should not).
Berlin has introduced a weapons ban - including knives and batons - for all passengers of the city's trains, buses and trams. Here’s what you need to know.
Germany's Interior Minister has announced his intention to issue Tasers to federal police officers by the end of the year, in addition to the batons and firearms they already carry.
Mass demonstrations were held in the German city of Oldenburg to criticise racism in the police force and demand a thorough investigation into the fatal shooting of a black man.
A German police officer on Sunday shot dead a man who threatened people with a knife outside a night club and advanced toward a patrol spraying a suspicious gas, police said.
As the German island of Borkum prepares for its annual ‘Klaasohm’ festival, police say they will step up patrols to stop the now outlawed tradition of men beating women's bottoms with cow horns.
German police have begun clearing a protest camp near Tesla's German factory near Berlin, where activists hoped to stop the expansion of the US carmaker's only European site.
Police on Tuesday arrested eight suspected members of a right-wing extremist group based in eastern Germany that had trained for what they expected would be the collapse of state order, prosecutors said.
German police were searching for a man on Thursday after he fled a police check at a busy Berlin railway station and left behind a bag containing explosives.
Germany's constitutional court ruled Tuesday that the federal police's powers of surveillance and data retention were too broad and ordered a change to the law.
Two people have died while several others who were trapped under the rubble for hours have been rescued after a hotel partially collapsed in the Moselle valley in western Germany.
Part of a hotel in western Germany collapsed late on Tuesday, killing two people and burying several others, with rescuers having pulled them from the rubble by Wednesday evening, authorities said.
A Berlin court on Tuesday fined a woman €600 for using the phrase "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" at a protest, in a ruling slammed as a "dark day for freedom of expression" by her lawyer.
Cargo flight operations were suspended for several hours and there is some disruption to passenger traffic after climate activists launched a protest at Leipzig/Halle airport.
After a group of Irish protestors were told by Berlin police to stop singing songs in Gaelic while they held a pro-Palestine event, The Local looks at whether foreign language protests are really outlawed in Germany's capital.
A video of two police officers in uniform but missing pants has drawn a lot of attention in Bavaria. The police union says the lack of suitable clothes for its officers is not a laughing matter.
Germany raided apartments across eight states on Thursday over an alleged plot by a far-right group to spread conspiracy theories and "destabilise" the state through social media networks, prosecutors said.
