Deputy police chief Margarete Koppers, is responsible for the current strife, her colleagues maintain. Koppers explained in 2012 already how she was going to improve the police by “diversifying” it.
In a two-page document leaked to the German weekly Focus, an officer of the State Police (LKA) had made serious allegations against Koppers. In the document titled “When Will the First Bullets Fly,” he described her as someone having close links to Arab crime clans.
The whistleblower warned against the infiltration of Berlin Police by crime clans. “Applicants from crime clans are being accepted into the police force despite their past criminal records. The information about this is held back by the Deputy Police Chief and prospective Prosecutor General.”
Arab crime families have reportedly been infiltrating the Berlin police according to the weekly. The whistleblower warned about the threat of bloody gang wars breaking out within the Berlin Police department. “It remains to be seen when the bullets will fly between the colleagues belonging rival ethnic groups. It’s only a matter of time,” he wrote.
The German Landespolizei force is deployed in the city-state of Berlin. Law enforcement in Germany is divided between federal and state or Land agencies.
The German daily, the Berliner Kurier, reported on the mass brawl at the institution only days before Christmas, resulting in a large police operation in their own ranks.
The fight between the future guardians of law and order, generally considered role models, resulted in a large police unit of a hundred being called out to the cafeteria of the police academy at Charlottenburger Chaussee to quell the violence.
First reports said that there was a mass fight between police students. Moreover, there were several injured – among them trainers. Shortly after the operation, however, there was an official order to manage the affair “internally”.
The Berliner Kurier has learned from a reliable source that first, an argument, and then a brawl, broke out between police trainees of Turkish and Arabic backgrounds.
Allegedly, police internally are well aware that there have been repeated conflicts between these two ethnic groups.
In November, a Berlin police trainee complained: “This is the enemy in our own ranks”. The trainee described hate, non-compliance and violence in the migrant-heavy police academy classes.
Berlin’s Arab crime families have been recruiting migrants. “Members of these [crime] families try to recruit them right outside the refugee housing,” Benjamin Jendro of the Berlin Police Union said.
It is “extremely difficult to penetrate” the Arab clans because of their “solid structures,” Dirk Jacob, the head of the State Police (LKA), told German newspaper Die Welt.