From Hildburg Bruns
By the end of May, the Berlin police had already checked the identity of 10,694 people at the seven official Berlin hotspots with a lot of crime.
On the Alex, the numbers rose to well over 500 a month in 2023 compared to previous years, while in the former squatter stronghold Rigaer Straße (Friedrichshain) they fell to single digits. So there were only five ID checks there in May. The police invested the most time in fighting drug crime at Görlitzer Park. This emerges from a parliamentary left-wing request to the Interior Senate.
Numbers of identity checks, evictions issued and total hours spent there by police officers:
► Alexanderplatz 2838 controls, 373 dismissals, 19,802 hours
► Görlitzer Park/ Wrangelkiez 2087 checks, 959 dismissals, 30,989 hours
► Hermannplatz 1103 controls, 271 dismissals, 14,681 hours
► Neukölln train station / Hermannstrasse 2160 checks, 482 dismissals, 15,594 hours
► Kottbusser Tor 1159 controls, 471 dismissals, 19,842
► Riga street 64 controls, 1 sending off, 4894 hours
► Warsaw Bridge 1282 controls, 242 dismissals, 12,610 hours
Leopoldplatz and Schöneberg-Nord are no longer considered so-called crime-prone places.